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Elastic image registration using correlations

Journal of Digital Imaging volume 11, pages 59–65 (1998)Cite this article

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We have developed a multiscale algorithm for elastic registration of images. Rigid registration has many applications but it is often limited by distortions in the images. For example, different views of the same object produce distortions. Common examples of slightly different views producing a distortion can be found in medical imaging, such as matching a current mammogram or chest radiograph with one from a previous year, and in remote sensing, such as matching images taken from different satellite positions. We have developed two methods of elastic registration. Both are multiscale but one used an interative minimization of the local error and the other uses a windowed correlation. We present preliminary results of the elastic registration method based on windowed correlations.

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

    John B. Weaver Ph.D., Dennis M. Healy, Senthil Periaswamy & Peter J. Kostelec

  2. Department of Radiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, 03756, Lebanon, N.H.

    John B. Weaver Ph.D., Dennis M. Healy, Senthil Periaswamy & Peter J. Kostelec

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Supported by DOD-AMRD, DAMD17-96-1-6119, and DARPA/AFOSR contract F49620-93-1-0567.

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Weaver, J.B., Healy, D.M., Periaswamy, S. et al. Elastic image registration using correlations. J Digit Imaging 11, 59–65 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03168261

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Keywords

  • Reference Image
  • Image Registration
  • Translation Parameter
  • Rigid Registration
  • IEEE Trans Medical Image