US Patent:
20080039706, Feb 14, 2008
Inventors:
Guillaume Bousquet - Lawrenceville NJ, US
International Classification:
A61B 5/05
Abstract:
A method of aligning image having the steps of obtaining a first image, the first image having a corresponding first data set, obtaining a second image, the second having a corresponding second data set; learning a joint intensity distribution from a pair of prealigned images, and aligning the first image and the second image by computing Earth Mover's Distance between their observed joint intensity distribution and the learned joint intensity distribution.