Feature-based composing for 3D MR angiography images

摘要

Multiple volumes that are to be aligned to form a single volume are processed. The system and method use an equalization step, a edge detection step and a correlation step to determine the overlapping positions between the first volume and the second volume of a volume pair having a maximum correlation value, and the best alignment of the first volume and the second volume of the volume pair is determined by the correlation value. A coarse correlation step using lower resolution volumes can be performed first followed by a fine correlation step using higher resolution images to save processing time. Initial preprocessing steps such as volume shearing can be performed. Equalization involves equalizing voxel size and edge detection can be performed using a Canny edge detector.