Current Approaches for Image Fusion of Histological Data with Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Figure 8

Matched histological slice with a CT-plane of a H and E-stained lung specimen following the method presented by Nagara et al. [49]. The original histological image (a) was converted into a grayscale representation and subsequently matched with the corresponding CT-plane based upon AKAZE features (b). The individual colors represent unique feature points identified in both modalities, which are connected by lines. Reprinted by permission from Springer Nature customer service center GmbH: Springer Nature patch-based techniques in medical imaging. Patch-MI 2017. Lecture notes in computer science vol 10530. Micro-CT guided 3D reconstruction of histological images, Kai Nagara, Holger R Roth, Shota Nakamura, Hirohisa Oda, Takayasu Moriya, Masahiro Oda, and Kensaku Mori., copyright© 2017 springer international publishing AG.

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