Patent ID: 8682050
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: G06T,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for obtaining at least one corresponding image pair from at least two adjacent sections A and B of a specimen, said method comprising the steps of: a) obtaining a superimage of at least part of section A and a superimage of at least part of section B, b) carrying out an image registration process on the two superimages by establishing correspondence between features of the two related superimages, in order to obtain a mathematical transformation rule, c) identifying an image field within section A, d) using said mathematical transformation rule to identify an area within section B, said area comprising an image field within section B corresponding to said image field within section A, e) obtaining an image of said image field within section A identified in step c) and obtaining an image of said image field within section B identified in step d) to obtain a corresponding image pair, f) optionally repeating steps c)-e) one or more times to obtain one or more different corresponding image pair(s) of one or more different image fields in the two sections A and B, g) storing a digitized version of said corresponding image pair(s) in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.