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We have developed a multiscale algorithm for elastic registration of images. Rigid registration has many applications but it is often limited by distortions in the images. For example, different views of the same object produce distortions. Common examples of slightly different views producing a distortion can be found in medical imaging, such as matching a current mammogram or chest radiograph with one from a previous year, and in remote sensing, such as matching images taken from different satellite positions. We have developed two methods of elastic registration. Both are multiscale but one used an interative minimization of the local error and the other uses a windowed correlation. We present preliminary results of the elastic registration method based on windowed correlations.
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Weaver, J.B., Healy, D.M., Periaswamy, S. et al. Elastic image registration using correlations. J Digit Imaging 11 (Suppl 1), 59–65 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03168261
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