Patent ID: 8428318
Filing Date: 2013-04-23
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method of averaging a sequence of image frames taken from a living object with a fluorescent imaging technique, said method comprising: applying a noise-reducing filter to said image frames to generate a sequence of filtered frames; applying a deconvolution filter to said sequence of filtered frames to generate a corresponding sequence of deconvolved frames; subjecting said deconvolved frames to a motion-correction transformation to generate a sequence of corrected deconvolved frames, wherein the ith corrected deconvolved frame is represented by J transforming said filtered frames by an affine transformation to align said filtered frames, thus generating a sequence of aligned frames, wherein an ith aligned frame is represented by I relocating image points in each aligned frame to generate a motion-corrected frame, wherein an ith motion-corrected frame is represented by I thus generating a sequence of motion-corrected frames; and averaging said motion-corrected frames to generate a resultant frame.