Patent ID: 8755581
Filing Date: 2014-06-17
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A device for processing data that constitute images of a portion or portions of a body comprising: processing means for processing first data representative of elementary parts of an image or images obtained by magnetic resonance in a region of a body and second data representative of elementary parts of an image or images obtained by ultrasound in a portion of said region, said processing means configured to i) construct first and second maps of a probability of the elementary parts belonging to structures of interest in said portion of the region, as a function of at least intensities associated therewith and defined by the first and second data, respectively, ii) estimate a transformation which makes it possible to move from one of said first and second maps to the other, while maximising, for each of the elementary parts, a joint probability that said each elementary part belongs to the same structure of interest, and iii) register the structures of interest of one of the first and second maps relative to the structures of interest of the other map, by said transformation.