Numerical treatment of registration problem in generation of patient-specific anatomical models

Registration is an important component of many medical data processing applications. Particularly significant is its role in the correlation of volumetric medical data aiming at generation of virtual patient-specific anatomical models. Such models enable optimization of various diagnostic and therapeutical procedures. The importance of the virtual patient models is becoming increasingly recognized in modern medicine. The advantages of using such biomedical virtual models are analogous to the advantages of real system behavior simulation in the engineering or material sciences. In this work some numerical issues associated with the registration problem and the visualization challenges arising in the context of virtual anatomical models have been presented and discussed.