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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2008
Adrian Barbu, Tallahassee, FL (US);
Wei Zhang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Norbert Strobel, Heroldsbach, DE;
Adam K. Galant, Carpentersville, IL (US);
Ulrich Bill, Effeltrich, DE;
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Adrian Barbu, Tallahassee, FL (US);
Wei Zhang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Norbert Strobel, Heroldsbach, DE;
Adam K. Galant, Carpentersville, IL (US);
Ulrich Bill, Effeltrich, DE;
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method and system for detecting and tracking an ablation catheter tip in a fluoroscopic image sequence is disclosed. Catheter tip candidates are detected in each frame of the fluoroscopic image sequence using marginal space learning. The detected catheter tip candidates are then tracked over all the frames of the fluoroscopic image sequence in order to determine an ablation catheter tip location in each frame.