
  Section of Biomedical Image Analysis
  Department of Radiology
  University of Pennsylvania
  3600 Market Street, Suite 380
  Philadelphia, PA 19104

  Web:   http://www.cbica.upenn.edu/sbia/
  Email: sbia-software at uphs.upenn.edu

  Copyright (c) 2014 University of Pennsylvania. All rights reserved.
  See http://www.cbica.upenn.edu/sbia/software/license.html or COPYING file.



INTRODUCTION
============

  Pre-Operative and post-Recurrence brain Tumor Registration (PORTR) [1,2] is 
  a software package designed for determining the optimal deformation between
  pre-operative and post-recurrence scans  by finding the minimum of an energy 
  function, which is based on the concept of symmetric registration.
  
  Some typical applications of PORTR include,

    - Mapping post-recurrence scans to pre-operative scans;
    - Labeling entire brain regions of each scan.

  PORTR is implemented as a command-line tool. It is semi-automatic and requires 
  minimal user initializations. Users could use the visual interface called 
  BrainTumorViewer to easily make initializations and a script for the execution. 
  As a result, PORTR will output a label map of each scan, a mapping between two
  scans, etc.  



PACKAGE OVERVIEW
================

  - config/             Package configuration files.
  - data/               The atlas used by PORTR.
  - doc/                Software documentation such as the software manual.
  - example/            Example data files.
  - lib/                Library source code files.
  - src/                Main source code files.
  - AUTHORS.txt         A list of the people who contributed to this software.
  - ChangeLog.txt       A log of changes between versions.
  - CMakeLists.txt      Root CMake configuration file.
  - COPYING.txt         The copyright and license notices.
  - INSTALL.txt         Build and installation instructions.
  - README.txt          This readme file.



DOCUMENTATION
=============

  See the software manual for details on the software including a demonstration
  of how to apply the software tools provided by this package.



INSTALLATION
============

  See http://www.cbica.upenn.edu/sbia/software/portr/installation.html or
  the installation section of the software manual.

  
  
LICENSING
=========

  See http://www.cbica.upenn.edu/sbia/software/license.html or COPYING file.



REFERENCES
==========

  [1] D. Kwon, M. Niethammer, H. Akbari, M. Bilello, C. Davatzikos, and K.M. Pohl, 
      "PORTR: Pre-Operative and Post-Recurrence Brain Tumor Registration", 
      IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 33(3): 651-667 (2014)
      http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2013.2293478

  [2] http://www.cbica.upenn.edu/sbia/software/portr/
