Medical Image Analysis
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 71-84 , February 2011

Semi-automatic construction of reference standards for evaluation of image registration

Received 26 May 2009 ,Revised 20 July 2010 ,Accepted 20 July 2010.

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Medical Image Analysis
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 71-84 , February 2011

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