A Novel Approach for Plant Embryonic Cells Serial Section Images Registration

The three dimensional reconstruction of the serial section images is an effective approach for plant embryo cells quantitative analysis. However, because of the complexity of the section images, the registration problem of the serial section images is difficult to be solved. In this paper, a novel approach based on Radon transform and phase correlation, which is used for the plant embryonic cells serial section images registration, is introduced. After the analysis of these image's features, we use the gravity center of the image to compute the quantity of parallel translation. Compared with the previous image registration algorithm using Radon transform and phase correlation, this approach observably improves both the efficiency and robustness.

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