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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2011
Raoul Florent, Ville d'Avray, FR;
Willem Frederik Den Hartog, Eindhoven, NL;
Vincent Maurice Andre Auvray, Paris, FR;
Raoul Florent, Ville d'Avray, FR;
Willem Frederik Den Hartog, Eindhoven, NL;
Vincent Maurice Andre Auvray, Paris, FR;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
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.