Abstract

Objective: The goal of this work is to improve the usability of a non-rigid registration software for medical images.
Method: We have built a registration grid service in order to use the interactivity of a visualization workstation and the computing power of a cluster.
On the user side, the system is composed of a graphical interface that interacts in a complex and fluid manner with the registration software running on a remote cluster.
Conclusion: Although the transmission of images back and forth between the computer running the user interface and the cluster running the registration service adds to the total registration time, it provides a user-friendly way of using the registration software without heavy infrastructure investments in hospitals. The system exhibits good performances even if the user is connected to the grid service through a low throughput network such as a wireless network interface or ADSL.

Date

February 28, 2026

Authors

Radu Stefanescu, Xavier Pennec, Nicholas Ayache

Journal

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volume

44

Issue

02

Pages

239-243

Publisher

Schattauer GmbH