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DCE-MRI is a novel medical imaging technique for breast cancer diagnostics. Unintentional patient’s movements during imaging session result with misalignments between consecutive image series. Their analysis is then problematic. The problem can be solved by application of image registration procedure. A system for DCE-MRI breast image registration, using B-spline transformation has been created. The paper presents work on its testing and tuning, to improve both performance and accuracy.
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Kuczyński, K., Siczek, M., Stegierski, R. (2013). Image Registration Tuning for DCE-MRI Breast Imaging. In: Choraś, R. (eds) Image Processing and Communications Challenges 4. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 184. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32384-3_6
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