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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2012
Julien Christian Barbot, Princeton, NJ (US);
Atilla Peter Kiraly, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Norbert Strobel, Heroldsbach, DE;
Julien Christian Barbot, Princeton, NJ (US);
Atilla Peter Kiraly, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Norbert Strobel, Heroldsbach, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method for the detection of a balloon catheter within a fluoroscopic image, including: removing noise from a fluoroscopic image; detecting edges of a balloon catheter in the fluoroscopic image, wherein the detected edges include subsets of connected edges; extracting an edge subset from the subsets of connected edges; fitting a model to the extracted edge subset; removing outliers of the extracted edge subset based on the fitting of the model; adding the extracted edge subset without the outlier to a data set; repeating the extracting, fitting, removing and adding steps for the remainder of the subsets of connected edges; and fitting the model to the data set, wherein the data set is indicative of the balloon catheter.