Research Article

A Novel Technique for Prealignment in Multimodality Medical Image Registration

Table 1

Test results of rotational differences between image pairs by the proposed method.

Image pair1st column and 
3rd column (°)
1st column and 
2nd column (°)
2nd column and 
3rd column (°)
Absolute value

Brain T1/T2 MRI17
Figure 9(a)
358 (or −2)
Figure 9(b)
340
Figure 9(c)
18
Head CT/MR17
Figure 9(d)
357 (or −3)
Figure 9(e)
341 (or −19)
Figure 9(f)
16
Prostate MR17
Figure 9(g)
7
Figure 9(h)
353 (or −7)
Figure 9(i)
14