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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

OME of the previously-mentioned acronyms are sorted alphabetically below. They should be used as a reference.

AAM: Active appearance model

AART: Autonomous appearance-based registration test-bed

ALU: Arithmetic and logic unit

ASM: Active shape model

COG: Centre of gravity

CPS: Clamped-plate spline

CT: Computed tomography

CVS: Concurrent versions system

EPSRC: Engineering and physical sciences research council

GC: Grand challenge

GPA: Generalised procrustes procedure

GSSEM: Graduate school of science, engineering and medicine

GUI: Graphical user interface

FFD: Free-form deformation

I/O: Input/output

IRC: Interdisciplinary research collaboration

ISBE: Imaging science and biomedical engineering

LOC: Lines of code

MDL: Minimum description length

MI: Mutual information

MIAS: Medical image and signal

MICCAI: Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention

MIUA: Medical image understanding and analysis

MSD: Mean of squared differences

MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging

NMI: Normalised mutual information

NRR: Non-rigid registration

PCA: Principal component analysis

PDF: Probability density function; Portable document format

PDM: Point distribution model

PET: Positron emission tomography

RAM: Random access memory

S&F: Structure and function

SDM: Statistical deformation model

SNR: Signal-to-noise ratio

SPM: Statistical parametric mapping

SSD: Sum of squared differences

TS: Taboo search

UCL: University college london

WWW: World wide web