fiducial

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Yes. marker = printed icon or glyph, also known as a fiducial

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  1. adjective Based on or relating to faith or trust.
  2. adjective Relating to or characteristic of a legal trust; fiduciary.
  3. adjective Regarded or employed as a standard of reference, as in surveying.

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  • The SBR approach achieved markedly better consistency of sulcal alignment than did VBR. (ii) A method is introduced for 'multi-fiducial mapping' of volume-averaged group data (e.g., fMRI data, probabilistic architectonic maps) onto each individual hemisphere in the atlas, followed by spatial averaging across the individual maps. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • This paper presents an in-vivo accuracy study on combining skin markers (external fiducials) and fiducial needles (internal fiducials) for motion compensation during liver interventions. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We compared the target registration error (TRE) for different numbers of skin markers ns and fiducial needles nf, as well as for different transformation types, in two swine using the tip of an additional tracked needle as the target. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Our study further indicates that the fiducial registration error (FRE) of a rigid transformation reflecting tissue motion generally correlates strongly with the TRE. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Slide 11: Gallery image based match constraint (GIBMC) [11]: An assumption has been made the fiducial points would be available around identical positions in the face image. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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  1. Late Latin fīdūciālis, from Latin fīdūcia, trust, from fīdere, to trust; see bheidh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Vg. fiducial = Italian fiduciale, from Middle Latin fiducialis, from Latin fiducia, trust, confidence, a thing held in trust, reliance, a pledge, deposit, pawn, mortgage, from fidere, trust: see faith.
 

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