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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
May. 14, 2015
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeroen van Baar, Arlington, MA (US);
Dohyung Seo, Lexington, MA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method registers a deformable image to a fixed image by first acquiring the deformable image and the fixed image. Multi-resolution multi-level image pyramids are generated for the deformable and fixed images. Levels of the multi-resolution multi-level image pyramids are processed in a coarse to fine order, and for each deformable and fixed image at each level partitioning the deformable and fixed image into overlapping blocks, and labeling each block with a label by solving, iteratively and in parallel, until a termination condition is reached, a binary maximum flow problem, within α-expansion, for each block and performing boundary fusion for the blocks, and then registering each block according to the labels to form the fixed image.