<title>Surface-based registration of 3D medical images</title>

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of existing surface based registration methods. Properties of commonly used classification schemes for registration algorithms are divided into two groups: external attributes are used to distinguish surface based from non-surface based registration algorithms, and internal attributes serve to distinguish surface based registration algorithms from each other. An overall comparison is performed based on a quality constrained cost analysis and the limits of the algorithms' applicability for neurosurgical therapy planning systems are investigated.