(chiefly imaging) In such a way as to be able to be deformed
2005, James Duncan, MICCAI 2005:[1], →ISBN, page 223:
The atlases can be used to reconstruct, or deformably register, the surface model of an object from just two to four 2D x-ray projections of the object.
2014, Yunqian Ma, Support Vector Machines Applications[2], →ISBN, page 212:
The brain images belonging to different subjects are aligned (deformably registered) to the same stereotaxic space to establish correspondence.