Medical Optical Scanning System - Data Fusion Evaluation Method

A method for evaluation of quality of multispectral data-fusion for robotic scanning is presented. The method was primarily developed for evaluation of robotic scanner developed in our laboratory, but its use is without doubt much wider. The layers to be evaluated are 3D spatial, color, and thermal. The approach is opposite to most commonly used methods for calibration, since the main task is to find corresponding data in already fused point-clouds. Special calibration plate was developed to allow calibration pattern visibility in all spectra.