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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2020
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Harold Agnes Wilhelmus Schmeitz, Eindhoven, NL;
Frederik Jan De Bruijn, Eindhoven, NL;
Gerhardus Wilhelmus Lucassen, Eindhoven, NL;
Vincent Maurice André Auvray, Meudon, FR;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention provides an ultrasound data processing method () for detecting presence of an intravascular object in a vessel lumen based on analysis of acquired intravascular ultrasound data of the lumen. The method comprises receiving () data comprising multiple frames, and each frame containing data for a plurality of radial lines, corresponding to different circumferential positions around the IVUS device body, and reducing () the data to a single representative value for each radial line in each frame. These representative values are subsequently processed to derive () values for at least each frame representative of a probability of presence of an object within the given frame. Based on the probability values, a region within the data occupied by an intravascular object, for instance a consecutive set of frames occupied by an object, is determined ().