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During breast cancer diagnosis, the breasts undergo large deformations due to gravity or compression loads. It is therefore non-trivial to recover the deformation and register medical images of the breast in different orientations (e.g. prone versus supine). Free-form deformations and biomechanical finite element models have been used to non-rigidly register breast images from prone to supine, but with limited success. In this paper, we demonstrate that the use of a finite element model to predict the deformation of the breast from prone to supine provides a significantly more accurate registration compared to free-form deformation methods. We also show that the use of this biomechanical model prediction as a prior to free-form deformation provides a significantly more accurate match than does the use of either method independently.
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Lee, A.W.C., Schnabel, J.A., Rajagopal, V., Nielsen, P.M.F., Nash, M.P. (2010). Breast Image Registration by Combining Finite Elements and Free-Form Deformations. In: Martí, J., Oliver, A., Freixenet, J., Martí, R. (eds) Digital Mammography. IWDM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6136. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13666-5_99
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