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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2019
Hiwin Technologies Corp., Taichung, TW;
China Medical University, Taichung, TW;
Bao-Yu Hsieh, Taichung, TW;
Tzung-Chi Huang, Taichung, TW;
Hsien-Te Chen, Taichung, TW;
You-Min Chen, Taichung, TW;
Yi-Cheng Liu, Taichung, TW;
HIWIN TECHNOLOGIES CORP., Taichung, TW;
CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, Taichung, TW;
Abstract
A method of medical image registration is to be implemented by a computer device, and includes steps of: obtaining an ultrasound target image corresponding to an area of interest in an ultrasound image; for each of multiple computed tomography (CT) images, obtaining a CT candidate image that corresponds to an area of interest in the CT image; for each of the CT candidate images, calculating a similarity between the CT candidate image and the ultrasound target image; making one of the CT candidate images that corresponds to the greatest similarity among the CT candidate images serve as a CT target image; and performing image registration on the ultrasound target image and the CT target image.