Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Scott Frederic Thompson

Jochen Kruecker

Pingkun Yan

Wei Lin

Samuel Coons

An interventional instrument () is inserted into a patient () to perform an interventional medical procedure guided by a medical imaging device (). A trigger control () is activated. An electronic data processing device () is programmed to operate the medical imaging device to: acquire and display video () of the interventional instrument () inserted into the patient; detect activation of the trigger control; in response to the detecting, process a video segment () of the acquired video to identify a trigger image () as a frame of the video segment capturing a medical intervention event performed by the interventional instrument and a location () of the medical intervention event in the identified trigger image; and display a still image of the identified trigger image with a superimposed marker () indicating the identified location of the medical intervention event.

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Scott Frederic Thompson