A system and method for registering pre-operative magnetic resonance (MR)
images with intra-operative MR images is disclosed. A pre-operative MR
image of an object is received. A set of intra-operative MR images of the
object is received. The pre-operative MR image is rigidly registered with
the initial intra-operative MR image. The subsequent set of
intra-operative images is deformably registered. The pre-operative MR
image undergoes both rigid and deformation transformation to match
specification of each image with in intra-operative MR image set.