2011 Winter Project Week:Efficient co-registration of multiple MR modalities using the ABC

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Key Investigators

• Utah: Bo Wang, Marcel Prastawa, Guido Gerig
• UCLA: Jack Van Horn, Andrei Irimia, Micah Chambers

Objective

Up to now, the UCLA clinicians haven't done any studies on multiple MR modalities. We want to explore the use of ABC for coregistering different modalities for multiple modalities analysis, joint visualization of multiple co-registered modalities.

Approach, Plan

ABC (Atlas-Based Classification) is a fully automatic segmentation method developed in Utah. It can process arbitrary number of channels/modalities by co-registration, it integrates brain stripping, bias correction and segmentation into one optimization framework. A brain atlas is used as spatial priors for tissue categories. We want to use ABC to do efficient co-registration of multiple MR modalities, joint visualization of multiple co-registered modalities.

Progress

Currently, we have applied ABC to process some multiple MR modalities data to get co-registration of multiple MR modalities.

References

• ABC