Methods are described for the production of a three-dimensional
reconstruction of a undeformed object from two different views of the
object under deformation using a volume constraint and also by matching
corresponding features in the two images. The volume constraint involves
assuming that the deformed volume is the same as the undeformed volume,
and calculating the deformed volume from one of the images. Further, the
deformation of the object can be parameterised by finding corresponding
image entities in the each of the images. The method is particularly
applicable to breast mammograms in which case the two images are the
cranio-caudal (CC) image and medio-lateral oblique (MLO) image whose
angular separation varies from 35 to 60 degrees. The image entities which
are detected in the two images are microcalcifications, and these are
matched by detecting a value representing their volume a looking for
matches in this value between the two images.