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+![Alt text](https://travis-ci.org/BioMedIA/IRTK.svg?branch=master)
+
+Image Registration Toolkit (IRTK)
+
+Version 2.0
+
+Disclaimer:
+
+This software has been developed for research purposes only, and hence should not be 
+used as a diagnostic tool. In no event shall the authors or distributors be liable to 
+any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising of the use 
+of this software, its documentation, or any derivatives thereof, even if the authors 
+have been advised of the possibility of such damage.
+
+Authors:
+
+The image registration software itself has been written by
+
+Daniel Rueckert
+
+Visual Information Processing Group
+Department of Computing
+Imperial College London
+London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
+
+The image processing library used by the registration software has been written by
+
+Daniel Rueckert
+Julia Schnabel
+
+See the COPYRIGHT file in this directory for more information on the copyright and 
+license agreement for the software.
+
+The non-rigid registration algorithms implemented in the software are described by 
+the following publications:
+
+J. A. Schnabel, D. Rueckert, M. Quist, J. M. Blackall, A. D. Castellano Smith, 
+T. Hartkens, G. P. Penney, W. A. Hall, H. Liu, C. L. Truwit, F. A. Gerritsen, 
+D. L. G. Hill, and D. J. Hawkes. A generic framework for non-rigid registration 
+based on non-uniform multi-level free-form deformations. In Fourth Int. Conf. on 
+Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI '01), pages 
+573-581, Utrecht, NL, October 2001
+
+D. Rueckert, L. I. Sonoda, C. Hayes, D. L. G. Hill, M. O. Leach, and D. J. Hawkes. 
+Non-rigid registration using free-form deformations: Application to breast MR 
+images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 18(8):712-721, 1999.
+
+E. R. E. Denton, L. I. Sonoda, D. Rueckert, S. C. Rankin, C. Hayes, M. Leach, D. 
+L. G. Hill, and D. J. Hawkes. Comparison and evaluation of rigid and non-rigid 
+registration of breast MR images. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 
+23:800-805, 1999.