Image stitching is one of important technologies in medical image processing field. In digital radiography oversized images have to be assembled from multiple exposures as the flat panel of an X-ray system cannot cover all part of a body. The stitching of X-ray images is carried out by employing two basic steps: Registration and Blending. The classical registration methods such as SIFT and SURF search for all the pixels to get the best registration. These methods are slow and cannot perform well for high resolution X-ray images. Therefore a fast and accurate feature based technique using ant colony optimization is implemented in the present work. This technique not only saves time but also gives the accuracy to stitch the image. This technique is also used for finding the edges for land marking and features of different X-ray images. Correlation is found between landmarks to check the alignment between the images and RANSAC algorithm is used to eliminate the spurious feature points. Finally alpha- blending technique is used to stitch the images.
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