TY - JOUR AU - Alam, Fakhre AU - Rahman, Sami Ur AU - Hassan, muhammad AU - Khalil, Adnan PY - 2017/08/09 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - AN INVESTIGATION TOWARDS ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN MEDICAL IMAGE REGISTRATION JF - Journal of Postgraduate Medical Institute JA - J Postgrad Med Inst VL - 31 IS - 3 SE - Review Article DO - UR - https://www.jpmi.org.pk/index.php/jpmi/article/view/2078 SP - AB - <p><em>The continuous development and innovation in medical imaging techniques<br />provide clinicians new ways for improved health care services. Despite improvement<br />in health care services, several issues and challenges in medical image<br />analysis are still present. Image registration is one of the most important tasks<br />in medical image analysis and is the most critical step in several clinical applications.<br />In this paper, medical image registration, which effectively integrate<br />complementary and valuable information from multiple imaging resources and<br />represent them in a single more informative image, is introduced. This paper<br />covers the most prominent state-of-the-art issues and challenges in medical<br />image registration and suggests some possible solutions. Moreover, the factors<br />affecting the accuracy, reliability and efficiency of registration techniques are<br />presented. An improved health care service is difficult to achieve until all the<br />issues and challenges in medical image registration are identified and subsequently<br />solved.</em></p> ER -