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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2005
Marcel Arditi, Genève, CH;
Nicolas Rognin, Genève, CH;
Tristan Messager, Genève, CH;
Jean-philippe Thiran, St-Légier, CH;
Ruth Campos, Chavannes-pres-Renens, CH;
Marcel Arditi, Genève, CH;
Nicolas Rognin, Genève, CH;
Tristan Messager, Genève, CH;
Jean-Philippe Thiran, St-Légier, CH;
Ruth Campos, Chavannes-pres-Renens, CH;
Bracco International BV, Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
An image registration method for use in medical imaging includes the steps of: providing a sequence of images each one including a digital representation of a body-part under analysis, selecting a reference image within the sequence, the remaining images of the sequence defining moving images, and re-aligning at least one portion of a moving image with respect to the reference image. The step of re-aligning may include: defining a delimitation mask identifying a region on the reference image with which the at least one portion of the moving image has to be re-aligned, and a feature mask identifying a further region on the reference image within which the re-alignment is calculated, determining an optimized transformation for compensating a displacement of the moving image with respect to the reference image by optimizing a similarity measure, and transforming the at least one portion of the moving image according to the optimized transformation.