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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1997
Marie-Pierre Dubuisson-Jolly, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Cheng-Chung Liang, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Alok Gupta, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A technique of displaying a segment of a coronary artery in a stabilized cineangiogram. A computer system receives a sequence of images of a conventional cineangiogram. A user displays a first image on a monitor and selects a point on an arterial segment. The computer system invokes an image tracking procedure that employs active optimal polyline contours to locate the arterial segment and a fixed point in each of the image frames of the conventional cineangiogram. The computer system produces a stabilized cineangiogram by translating the images to place the arterial segment in substantially the same viewing location in each one of the image frames.