Image Registration Toolkit
This software has been developed for research purposes only, and hence should not be used as a diagnostic tool. In no event shall the authors or distributors be liable to any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising of the use of this software, its documentation, or any derivatives thereof, even if the authors have been advised of the possibility of such damage.
The image registration software itself has been written by
Daniel Rueckert
Visual Information Processing Group
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
The image processing library used by the registration software has been written by
Daniel Rueckert
Julia Schnabel
See this page for more information on the copyright and license agreement for the software.
the software are described by the following publications:
- J. A. Schnabel, D. Rueckert, M. Quist, J. M. Blackall, A. D. Castellano Smith, T. Hartkens, G. P. Penney, W. A. Hall, H. Liu, C. L. Truwit, F. A. Gerritsen, D. L. G. Hill, and D. J. Hawkes. A generic framework for non-rigid registration based on non-uniform multi-level free-form deformations. In Fourth Int. Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI '01), pages 573-581, Utrecht, NL, October 2001
- D. Rueckert, L. I. Sonoda, C. Hayes, D. L. G. Hill, M. O. Leach, and D. J. Hawkes. Non-rigid registration using free-form deformations: Application to breast MR images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 18(8):712-721, 1999.
- E. R. E. Denton, L. I. Sonoda, D. Rueckert, S. C. Rankin, C. Hayes, M. Leach, D. L. G. Hill, and D. J. Hawkes. Comparison and evaluation of rigid and non-rigid registration of breast MR images. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 23:800-805, 1999.
The Image Registration Toolkit (called IRTK) is not related to the Insight Toolkit (also called IRTK). By coincidence both packages use the same acronymn. If you are looking for the Insight Toolkit please visit
http://www.itk.org.
18 December 2007: A new version of the Image Registration Toolkit has been released. Major improvements include support for the NIFTI file format and more compact parameter files for the registration. For more information on how to use IRTK look
here.
22 May 2006: Several problems have been fixed in the windows version of the software. Also, the file formats for transformation files have been changed and are now more compact.
Binaries can be downloaded from
here. Information on how to use the tools included in he software can be found
here.