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Image Registration

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Image alignment; Image fusion

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Image registration aligns corresponding features of images via spatial transformations.

Background

Computer vision or image processing systems often need to align multiple images of the same or similar scenes. In medical imaging, for example, radiologists routinely compare images of a patient acquired at different times to monitor changes. The intensity difference between two images highlights such changes, but only if the corresponding features are in the same location. However, patients’ positions in imaging devices vary between visits, so raw images never have perfect alignment. Image registration transforms or warps one image so that the important objects and the regions of interest are in the same position as in the other image. The difference image then reveals intrinsic physical changes. Figure 1illustrates the idea. The problem...

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  1. UCL Centre for Medical Image Computing, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, University College London, London, UK

    Yipeng Hu, Daniel C. Alexander & Thomy Mertzanidou

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Hu, Y., Alexander, D.C., Mertzanidou, T. (2020). Image Registration. In: Computer Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03243-2_194-1

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