Abstract #2596

Automatic Registration of Renal Perfusion Image Sequences by Mutual Information & Adaptive Prediction

Vincenzo Positano¹, Ilaria Bernardeschi¹, Virna Zampa², Martina Marinelli³, Maria Filomena Santarelli³, Luigi Landini^1,4

¹MRI Lab, Fondazione G.Monasterio CNR-Regione Toscana, Pisa, Italy; ²Department of Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; ³Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy; ⁴Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

The aim of the study is to develop an automatic image registration technique able to compensate kidney motion in renal perfusion studies. The developed method is able to compensate kidney motion with a precision not significantly different from inter-observer variability of human operators.