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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2003
Nikolaos Paragios, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Mikael Rousson, Preaux, FR;
Visvanathan Ramesh, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Nikolaos Paragios, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Mikael Rousson, Preaux, FR;
Visvanathan Ramesh, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for non-rigid image registration using distance functions includes portions for receiving a source shape into an image space, integrating a global linear registration model with local deformations to assess the source shape, optimizing a functional defined on a parameter or feature space where the functional quantifies the similarity between the source shape and a target shape in terms of distance functions, creating an augmented registration space including a plurality of target shape clones coherently positioned in the image space, tracking moving interfaces between the source shape and the target shapes and clones through a level set method, and registering the source shape by seeking mutual correspondences between the source shape, the target shape and the target shape clones.