Perceiving Systems, Computer Vision

Correspondence estimation from non-rigid motion information

2011

Conference Paper

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The DIET (Digital Image Elasto Tomography) system is a novel approach to screen for breast cancer using only optical imaging information of the surface of a vibrating breast. 3D tracking of skin surface motion without the requirement of external markers is desirable. A novel approach to establish point correspondences using pure skin images is presented here. Instead of the intensity, motion is used as the primary feature, which can be extracted using optical flow algorithms. Taking sequences of multiple frames into account, this motion information alone is accurate and unambiguous enough to allow for a 3D reconstruction of the breast surface. Two approaches, direct and probabilistic, for this correspondence estimation are presented here, suitable for different levels of calibration information accuracy. Reconstructions show that the results obtained using these methods are comparable in accuracy to marker-based methods while considerably increasing resolution. The presented method has high potential in optical tissue deformation and motion sensing.

Author(s): Jonas Wulff and Thomas Lotz and Thomas Stehle and Til Aach and J Geoffrey Chase
Book Title: Proc. SPIE
Journal: Proc. SPIE
Year: 2011
Editors: B. M. Dawant, D. R. Haynor
Publisher: SPIE

Department(s): Perceiving Systems
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
Paper Type: Conference

DOI: 10.1117/12.877896
Event Name: Medical Imaging 2011: Image Processing
Event Place: Lake Buena Vista, Florida

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.877896

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BibTex

@inproceedings{Wulff:SPIE:2011,
  title = {Correspondence estimation from non-rigid motion information},
  author = {Wulff, Jonas and Lotz, Thomas and Stehle, Thomas and Aach, Til and Chase, J Geoffrey},
  journal = {Proc. SPIE},
  booktitle = {Proc. SPIE},
  editors = {B. M. Dawant, D. R. Haynor},
  publisher = {SPIE},
  year = {2011},
  doi = {10.1117/12.877896},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.877896}
}