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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2013
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Image processing apparatusfor processing a medical image, comprising an inputfor obtaining the medical imageand medical data, the medical image constituting a field of view in three-dimensional [3D] patient data, and the medical data showing an anatomical context of a content of the field of view, an outputfor providing an output imagecomprising the medical image and a visualization of the medical data, the medical data constituting non-patient specific medical data, and the imaging processing apparatus further comprising a processorfor (i) performing an image alignment between the medical image and the medical data for obtaining a transformation providing a position of the content with respect to its anatomical context, and (ii) using the transformation for establishing a graphical representation of the field of view in the visualization of the medical data at said position.