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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2019
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Yiannis Kyriakou, Spardorf, DE;
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A weighting for a roadmap method is automatically determined. A first or a second weighting image is generated from an anatomical image and an object image. For this purpose, a prespecified first weighting value is assigned to pixels belonging to a prespecified anatomical feature or to an instrument. Other pixels are assigned increasingly small weighting values at increasing distances from the anatomical feature or from the instrument toward an edge of a respective recording region according to a prespecified monotonously decreasing function in dependence upon the location. An overall weighting image is generated by combining the first and the second weighting images with one another and/or a region of interest determined using the overall weighting image are then provided as input data for an image processing algorithm.