Medical viewing system and method for enhancing structures in noisy images

Abstract

A viewing system and method for enhancing objects of interest represented on a moving background in a sequence of noisy images and for displaying the sequence of enhanced images, comprising extracting means () for extracting features related to an object of interest in images of the sequence; registering means () for registering the features related to the object of interest with respect to the image referential, yielding registered images (); similarity detection means for determining the resemblance of the representations of a registered object of interest in succeeding images and weighing means for modulating the intensities of the pixels of said object of interest over the images of the sequence; temporal integrating means () for integrating the object of interest and the background over a number, or at least two, registered images () of the sequence; and display means () for displaying the processed images () of the enhanced registered object of interest on faded background. Application: Medical Imaging. X-ray Fluoroscopic Imaging.