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. Nowadays elastix is
accompanied by SimpleElastix,
making it available in languages like C++, Python, Java, R,
Ruby, C# and Lua. A Python interface is available via ITKElastix.
The authors of elastix are Stefan Klein and Marius
Staring. Their contact information:
| Stefan Klein | Marius Staring |
| Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam | Leiden University Medical Center |
| Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam | Division of Image Processing |
| https://bigr.nl/member/stefan/ | website |
This software was initially developed at the Image Sciences Institute (ISI), under supervision of Josien P.W. Pluim, on funding granted by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). See the wiki and the git history for acknowledgments to the many contributors.
If you use this software anywhere we would appreciate if you cite the following articles:
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.
doi
D.P. Shamonin, E.E. Bron, B.P.F. Lelieveldt, M. Smits, S. Klein and M. Staring, "Fast Parallel Image Registration on CPU and GPU for Diagnostic Classification of Alzheimer's Disease", Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, vol. 7, no. 50, pp. 1-15, January 2014. doi
The documentation can be found on the GitHub wiki.
elastixOn this page you can download elastix via periodic releases or from version control.
elastix version 5.1.0 was released 13-01-2023.
The binaries can be downloaded via GitHub.
You can subscribe to the elastix-imageregistration
Google forum to stay informed about new developments of
elastix, and to communicate with other users and
the developers. You can participate via https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/elastix-imageregistration.