Patent Document ID: 7590264
Application ID: 10471153
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for the quantitative and visual analysis of motion in a time sequence of images comprising: using a computer-implemented to perform the following steps: a) determining the motion vectors for points in the image space between images of subsequent time steps by means of registration of images of an image sequence; b) reconstruction of the space-time-structure within the image space and visualization thereof by means of at least one of the following steps b1) to b4): b1) determining a point for a selectable moment, calculating automatically its position for other moments by a means of a transformation resulting from the registration as calculated in a) as well as determining and visualizing the interpolated representation of the path which relates to the determinined point and its calculated transformed positions as 3D rendered path; b2) determining and visualizing a 3D rendered reference grid, deformed according to the transformation calculated in a), where the grid is optionally displayed successively for intermediate degrees of deformation from an undeformed until the deformation corresponding to the transformation calculated in a) where in a image record having several color channels, the reference grids corresponding to the different color channels are separately treated; b3) color/pattern encoding (including gray value encoding) of quantities which are assigned to a point in the image/time space and where vector valued quantities are represented by a means of absolute values, for (i) all points, lying within an interactively selectable plane of the image space, or (ii) for any selected points or (iii) the points of the under b1) determinined path of the space; and b4) a motion corrected representation of the paths or of any other means of visualization described in b2)-b3), where the motion is corrected by undoing the part of the motion which corresponds to a selected class of transformations and which is calculated by registration.