Differential affine motion estimation for medical image registration

We have applied techniques from differential motion estimation in the context of automatic registration of medical images. This method uses optical-flow and Fourier technique for local/global registration. A six parameter affine model is used to estimate shear, rotation, scale and translation. We show the efficacy of this method with images of similar and different contrasts.

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