Title :
Towards integrated analysis of longitudinal whole-body small animal imaging studies
Author :
Lelieveldt, B.P.F. ; Botha, C.P. ; Kaijzel, E.L. ; Hendriks, E.A. ; Reiber, J.H.C. ; Löwik, C. W G M ; Dijkstra, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Radiol., Leiden Univ. Med. Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Abstract :
This paper discusses a number of image analysis challenges emerging from longitudinal small animal molecular imaging studies. Three steps towards a quantitative 3D analysis of follow-up small animal imaging are presented: whole-body articulated registration, change visualization in follow-up data and fusion of optical and 3D structural imaging data. Several application examples are presented in the context of translational cancer research.
Keywords :
biology computing; image registration; zoology; 3D structural imaging data; image analysis; longitudinal small animal molecular imaging; longitudinal whole body small animal imaging studies; quantitative 3D analysis; translational cancer research; whole body articulated registration; Animals; Biomedical imaging; Bones; Computed tomography; Data visualization; Three dimensional displays; Small animal imaging; change visualization; image fusion; whole-body registration;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Prague
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0538-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1520-6149
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947671
