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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2023
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Alexander Franciscus Kolen, Eindhoven, NL;
Harm Jan Willem Belt, Weert, NL;
Godefridus Antonius Harks, Rijen, NL;
Geert Gerardus Henricus Maria Gijsbers, Liempde, NL;
Hong Liu, Helmond, NL;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An ultrasound image processing apparatus includes an image processor arrangement that receives a plurality of ultrasound images. Each ultrasound image shows an invasive medical device relative to an anatomical feature during a cardiac cycle. At different phases of the cardiac cycle, the anatomical feature has a different shape. The ultrasound processing apparatus compiles groups of the ultrasound images with ultrasound images in each group belonging to the same phase of the cardiac cycle. The ultrasound image processing apparatus generates an augmented ultrasound image from one of the ultrasound images by removing a shadow region on the anatomical feature of interest caused by the invasive medical device based on a displacement of the invasive medical device.