The present invention discloses a method of volume-panorama imaging
processing, which generates a volume-panorama image by subsequently
splicing respective image frames from an image sequence obtained in a
real-time way or stored in a medium based upon the fact that the
immediately adjacent image frames have the largest correlation. The
method comprises the steps of: reading the image sequence, and firstly
initializing an aligned image and a spliced image; dividing the i-th
image frame F.sub.i into a plurality of sub-regions; calculating a motion
vector of the i-t image frame with respect to the aligned image; fitting
the motion vector to calculate a transform coefficient; splicing the
F.sub.i to the current spliced image based upon the transform
coefficient, and updating the aligned image; entering into a
self-adaptive selection of a next image frame until the end of the
splicing; and outputting the current spliced image as a resultant image.
Additionally, when the image F.sub.i is spliced, double-filtering
architecture of selecting characteristic points through a filtering and
selecting the valid motion vector of the selected characteristic points
through the other filtering to reduce an alignment error may be adopted.
According to the present invention, the volume-panorama imaging can be
done quickly and accurately so that the reliability of images
particularly meets a very high requirement of the ultrasonic iatric
diagnose.