Patent ID: 8145012

Claim:
A data processing device for registration of a first image of an object, which first image was obtained with a first imaging method having a second image of the object, which second image was obtained with a second imaging method different from the first imaging method, wherein the data processing device is equipped for executing the following steps: a) generating a first transformed image from the first image, in which characteristic image features of the first imaging method are reduced or characteristic image features of the second imaging method are intensified, where the first transformed image and the first image are different images; b) generating a second transformed image from the second image, in which, optionally characteristic image features of the second imaging method are reduced and optionally, characteristic image features of the first imaging method are intensified, where the second transformed image and the second image are different images, where areas of at least one of the transformed images are masked and where at least one of the imaging methods does not supply reliable information; and c) registering the transformed images.