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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2015
Canon U.s.a., Inc., Melville, NY (US);
The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Junichi Tokuda, Newton, MA (US);
Nobuhiko Hata, Newton, MA (US);
Takahisa Kato, Brookline, MA (US);
Brian Ninni, Boston, MA (US);
Laurent Chauvin, Brookline, MA (US);
Canon U.S.A., Inc., Melville, NY (US);
The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Exemplary methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for automated detection and registration of medical images using fiducial markers and processing algorithms. By either clustering fiducial markers having a different number, size, shape, configuration, or material property or by using fiducial markers arranged in a ring shape, wherein their arrangement is asymmetric, and then applying a feature extraction to extract the fiducial marker objects, and registering the fiducial marker objects with a model of the fiducial frame, automatic registration can be achieved.