The Retrospective Image Registration Evaluation Project
This project is now open at http://insight-journal.org/rire/index.html.
J. Michael Fitzpatrick, Principal Investigator
This is a description of a project entitled “Retrospective Image Registration Evaluation (RIRE)”, sponsored by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Project Number 8R01EB002124-03, Principal Investigator, J. Michael Fitzpatrick, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. This project was formerly called the "Retrospective Registration Evaluation Project (RREP)". The project is designed to compare retrospective CT-MR and PET-MR registration techniques used by a number of groups. It involves the use of a database, commonly known as the "Vanderbilt Database", to allow the downloading using FTP of image volumes on which the registrations are to be performed. The idea is that the collaborating groups perform registrations on the image volumes, using their own retrospective techniques, and we at Vanderbilt evaluate the accuracy of these transformations by means of our own prospective, marker-based technique.
Information
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Full description
of the original project (PostScript
or PDF
format).
Description
of the MP-RAGE images.
Format
of the data and structure of the database.
Protocol
for communicating transformations.
Recipe
for converting from your coordinate system to ours.
Sample
acknowledgement: please include one of these if you use our datasets or
results obtained from them in your publications.
Minutes
of an open workshop which took place at the SPIE Medim '96 conference in Newport
Beach, California, where many issues relevant to this project were discussed in
detail.
Publications
The paper we
presented at the SPIE Medim '96 conference (vol. proc. SPIE 2710, pp. 332-347,
1996): Postscript
or PDF
format.
Text-only version
of this paper (PostScript
or PDF
but without images).
A paper which
appeared in the July/August 1997 issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted
Tomography (vol.21, pp. 554-566, 1997): PostScript
or PDF
format.
Text-only version
of this paper (
PostScript or PDF
format).
A paper which
appeared in a special issue of IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging on image registration
(IEEE TMI vol. 17, pp. 694-702, 1998): PostScript
or PDF
format.
Participation
If you'd like your registration technique to be
evaluated as part of this ongoing project, mail Dr. Fitzpatrick, the Principal
Investigator, to ask to be included.
Alternatively,
here's a description
of the material you'll need to provide in order to join the
project.
Results
Here is the list of all results
obtained so far for the evaluation of registrations submitted to us.
News
We continue to receive registration submissions - our “results” directory is constantly growing! We'd like to thank all the participants for their hard work, and we hope that the information provided on this page is of benefit to those who read it.