Method and systems for motion-stabilized clinical tool tracking and visualization

Abstract

Various methods and systems are provided for x-ray imaging. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring a plurality of fluoroscopic images depicting an interventional tool positioned relative to an anatomy of interest of a patient, segmenting the interventional tool in the plurality of fluoroscopic images, measuring motion of the patient in the plurality of fluoroscopic images, correcting the plurality of fluoroscopic images to remove the motion of the patient, registering the segmented interventional tool to the anatomy of interest in the corrected plurality of fluoroscopic images, and displaying images with the segmented interventional tool registered to the anatomy of interest. In this way, a practitioner may view the position and movement of an interventional tool located within a patient relative to static images of the anatomy without motion artifacts or errors induced by patient motion such as respiratory motion or cardiac motion.