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System and method for salient region feature based 3D multi modality registration of medical images

US7583857B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. · US

Inventors

Chenyang Xu · Allentown, US
Dieter Hahn · Memmelsdorf, DE
Yiyong Sun · Lawrenceville, US
Frank Sauer · Princeton, US

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 28, 2006
Grant date	Sep 1, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 7, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06V2201/031
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for aligning a pair of images includes providing a pair of images, identifying salient feature regions in both a first image and a second image, wherein each region is associated with a spatial scale, representing feature regions by a center point of each region, registering the feature points of one image with the feature points of the other image based on local intensities, ordering said feature pairs by a similarity measure, and optimizing a joint correspondence set of feature pairs by refining the center points to sub-pixel accuracy.

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