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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2000
John Taylor, Jr., Clayton, NC (US);
Large Scale Proteomics Corporation, Germantown, MD (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented image processing method and apparatus for warping a plurality of gel electrophoresis images is provided. The method includes the steps of assigning tiepoints in a reference image and in one or more object images. The tiepoints in the object image are evaluated one-by-one by comparison to regions about a corresponding tiepoint in the reference image, and the location of the tiepoint in the object image is adjusted by slight movement to a location with respect to recognizable features in both the reference and object image thereby defining a tiepoint pair linking a location in the reference image with a location in the object image. outlier tiepoint pairs may be rejected if that pair does not meet predetermined conditions. Warping functions are generated and then globally optimized. The plurality of images are tied together using the tiepoint pairs such that all of the images may be subsequently warped into registration to a single base image selected from the plurality of images.