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Optical flow is a valuable tool for motion analysis in medical imaging sequences. A reliable application requires determining the accuracy of the computed optical flow. This is a main challenge given the absence of ground truth in medical sequences. This paper presents an error analysis of Lucas-Kanade schemes in terms of intrinsic design errors and numerical stability of the algorithm. Our analysis provides a confidence measure that is naturally correlated to the accuracy of the flow field. Our experiments show the higher predictive value of our confidence measure compared to existing measures.
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Márquez-Valle, P., Gil, D., Hernàndez-Sabaté, A. (2012). Error Analysis for Lucas-Kanade Based Schemes. In: Campilho, A., Kamel, M. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7324. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31295-3_22
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