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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2016
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Rolf Dieter Bippus, Hamburg, DE;
Sven Kabus, Hamburg, DE;
Michael Grass, Buchholz In Der Nordheide, DE;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to a registration apparatus () for registering images comprising a unit () for providing a first and a second image of an object, such that an image element of the first image at a respective position has been reconstructed by multiplying projection data values of rays traversing the image element with weights and by backprojecting the weighted projection data values, a unit () for providing a confidence map comprising for different positions in the first image confidence values being indicative of a likelihood that an image feature is caused by a structure of the object, the confidence value being calculated as a sum of a function, which depends on the respective weight, over the rays traversing the respective image element, and a unit () for determining a transformation for registering the first and second image to each other under consideration of the confidence map.