Patent ID: 9053541
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A computer system operable to determine a registration mapping between a first medical image and a second medical image, the computer system comprising: a storage device for storing data representing the first medical image and the second medical image; and a processor unit operable to execute machine readable instructions to: (a) identify a plurality of elements in the first medical image; (b) determine a spatial mapping from each element in the first medical image to a corresponding element in the second medical image to provide a plurality of spatial mappings subject to a consistency constraint; and (c) determine a registration mapping between the first medical image and the second medical image based on the plurality of spatial mappings from the respective elements of the first medical image to the corresponding elements of the second medical image, wherein the processor unit is operable such that the consistency constraint is applied by identifying inconsistent spatial mappings which are outside a set of the plurality of spatial mappings which meet a self-consistency criterion and modifying the inconsistent spatial mappings for improved consistency with spatial mappings which meet the self-consistency criterion.