@string{dicta="Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications"}
@INPROCEEDINGS{Santa-Kato2012,
  author = {Zsolt Santa and Zoltan Kato},
  title = {Elastic Registration of 3{D} Deformable Objects},
  booktitle = dicta,
  year = {2012},
  pages = {1--7},
  address = {Fremantle, Australia},
  month = dec,
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/DICTA.2012.6411674},
  abstract = {A novel correspondence-less approach is proposed to find a non-linear
	aligning transformation between a pair of deformable 3D objects.
	Herein, we consider a polynomial deformation model, but our framework
	can be easily adapted to other common deformations. The basic idea
	of the proposed method is to set up a system of nonlinear equations
	whose solution directly provides the parameters of the aligning transformation.
	Each equation is generated by integrating a nonlinear function over
	the object’s domains. Thus the number of equations is determined
	by the number of adopted nonlinear functions yielding a flexible
	mechanism to generate sufficiently many equations. While classical
	approaches would establish correspondences between the shapes, our
	method works without landmarks. The efficiency of the proposed approach
	has been demonstrated on a large synthetic dataset as well as in
	the context of medical image registration.}
}