1995 Advances in medical imaging technology introduce a variety of imaging modalities which measure different parameters of the human body. The availability of such multiple modality images has affected diagnosis, therapeutic procedure and surgical planning.
Clinicians tend to consult different images to achieve better diagnosis and therapy.
Nevertheless, the task of matching and comprehending multi-modal images is not an easy one. This thesis investigates new three dimensional techniques of integrating multiple medical volumetric data sets from different imaging modalities. Specifically, functional and anatomical images of the human brain are merged. The thesis reviews the available two and three dimensional techniques of combining multi-modal images. Then, it presents new integration methods.