Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Femke Van Belzen

Raymond C Chan

Laurent Verard

Ahmet Ekin

Milan Jan Henri Marell

Laurent VÉRARD

A shape sensing system comprises a processor coupled to a memory storage device and a predictive model module stored in the memory storage device and configured to receive shape sensing measurements and predict next shape sensing measurements based upon current state data for a shape sensing enabled device, the predictive model module including a Kalman filter and at least one reference model employed by the Kalman filter. The Kalman filter employs the reference model(s) and the current state data to predict new shape data by weighting the reference model(s) versus the current state data to improve shape data measurements.

Adaptive instrument kinematic model optimization for optical shape sensed instruments

The invention relates to a registration system () for registering an imaging device () like an x-ray C-arm device with a tracking device () like an optical shape sensing tracking device. An object detection unit () is adapted to a) allow a user to add markers to an image of an object for indicating arbitrary positions on the object and b) provide a representation of the object based on the added markers, wherein a registration unit () determines registration parameters based on a location of the object tracked by the tracking device and on the location of the representation. This kind of registration can be performed with any object being visible for the user in the image, thereby permitting to use a wide variety of objects for the registration.

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Femke Van Belzen