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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2004
Applicants:
Ingwer Carlsen, Hamburg, DE;
Thomas Netsch, Hamburg, DE;
Astrid Franz, Hamburg, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Image registration very often used to be a tedious task which had to be performed manually. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a non-rigid image registration by an iterative refinement process based on a combination of landmarks with similarity values is proposed. Advantageously, a very fast and robust method maybe provided.