METHOD OF MODEL-BASED ELASTIC IMAGE REGISTRATION FOR COMPARING A FIRST AND A SECOND IMAGE

摘要

partitioning (PART (Is, IT)) one or more restricted structures corresponding in the first (3) and the second (5) image and imposing additional constraints (fAddpart) derived from a-priori-knowledge to the one or more restricted structures. Preferred examples are i) pairs of interactively defined point landmarks (25), ii) landmarks resulting from automatic identification of corresponding stmctures in form of a line (23) or an area (27) or a form or a boundary (29, Fig. 3) thereof, iii) different material properties (tissue 1, tissue 2) of corresponding structures, iv) physiological constraints establishing more general correspondences. Fig. 1