Image-based medical device localization

Details Image-based medical device localization Image-based medical device localization

2007-03-13

2007-03-13

Wu, Jingge (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Applications

Biomedical applications

C600S434000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10977488

ABSTRACT:
A method of identifying an elongate medical device in a two-dimensional image of an operating region includes filtering pixels meeting a predetermined intensity requirement for linear scaling, dividing the filtered pixels into groups of contiguous pixels, and selecting from the groups a group corresponding to the medical device.

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patent: 2004/0068173 (2004-04-01), Viswanathan

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