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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience Volume 2012, Article ID 135204, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/135204 Research Article Composite Match Index with Application of Interior Deformation Field Measurement from Magnetic Resonance Volumetric Images of Human Tissues Penglin Zhang,1 Xubing Zhang,2 and Jiangping Chen1 1 School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China 2 College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430073, China Correspondence should be addressed to Xubing Zhang, xubingnational@ Received 5 April 2012; Revised 8 June 2012; Accepted 6 July 2012 Academic Editor: Yen-Wei Chen Copyright © 2012 Penglin Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Whereas a variety of different feature-point matching approaches have been reported in computer vision, few feature-point matching approaches employed in images from nonrigid, nonuniform human tissues have been reported. The present work is concerned with interior deformation field measurement of complex human tissues from three-dimensional magnetic resonance (MR) volumetric images. To improve the reliability of matching results, this paper proposes composite match index (CMI) as the foundation of multimethod fusion methods to increase the reliability of these various methods. Thereinto, we discuss the definition, components, and weight determination of CMI. To test the validity of the proposed approach, it is applied to actual MR volumetric images obtained from a volunteer’s calf. The main result is consistent with the actual condition.