Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Willem Frederik Den Hartog

Raoul Florent

Vincent Maurice Andre Auvray

Peter Willem Van Den Houten

Vincent Maurice André Auvray

The present invention relates to a devicefor automatically identifying a partof an anatomy structure comprising several parts, in which anatomy structure an intervention deviceresides. The devicecomprises a feature extraction unitand an anatomy part classification unit. The feature extraction unituses provided image content data ICD to extract at least one characterizing feature DS of the appearance ofthe intervention device. The anatomy part classification unitcorrelates the at least one characterizing feature DS with provided classifier data CD which are characteristic for a projection feature of the intervention deviceviewed under certain geometry of an imaging system. After correlating, the anatomy part classification unitdetermines in which partof the anatomy structure comprising several partsthe intervention deviceis located.

Automated identification of an anatomy part

The present invention relates to automatic absorption means positioning in X-ray image acquisition. To improve image quality and to optimize the radiation exposure of an object, optimal position for X-ray absorption means is provided. A first sequence () of X-ray images is acquired (). For each of the images, the optimal position () for X-ray absorption means is determined (). A second sequence () of X-ray images is associated 10 () with corresponding images of the first sequence. The determined optimal position for the absorption means () of the associated corresponding images of the first sequence () is selected for an acquisition of the second sequence (). Hence, a situation-specific database with optimized positions for the absorption means is generated on behalf of the first sequence in order to provide the generated position information for the actual acquisition of a 15 second sequence of images.

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Willem Frederik Den Hartog