Welcome to elastix: a toolbox for rigid and nonrigid registration of images.

elastix is open source software, based on the well-known Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK). The software consists of a collection of algorithms that are commonly used to solve (medical) image registration problems. The modular design of elastix allows the user to quickly configure, test, and compare different registration methods for a specific application. A command-line interface enables automated processing of large numbers of data sets, by means of scripting.

Authors

The authors of elastix are Stefan Klein and Marius Staring. Their contact information:

This software was initially developed at the Image Sciences Institute (ISI), under supervision of:

on funding granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Since May 2008, Marius Staring is employed with the Leiden University Medical Center, Division of Image Processing and Stefan Klein with the Erasmus Medical Center, Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam. See the wiki for acknowledgments to other contributors.

If you use this software anywhere we would appreciate if you cite the following article:

S. Klein, M. Staring, K. Murphy, M.A. Viergever, J.P.W. Pluim, "elastix: a toolbox for intensity based medical image registration," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 196 - 205, January 2010.

How to use this documentation

• For a short introduction to elastix, what it can do and how it is used, see the About page.
• The binaries and sources can be downloaded from the Download page. You can download the elastix manual for a lot of information regarding the use of elastix.
• For an extensive documentation of the source code see the doxygen generated Documentation pages.

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