title:: US9155470B2 — Method and system for model based fusion on pre-operative computed tomography and intra-operative fluoroscopy using transesophageal echocardiography
patent:: US9155470B2
status:: granted 2015-10-13 · Active
filed:: 2013-01-15
assignee:: Siemens AG
people:: Sasa Grbic, Peter Mountney, Razvan Ioan Ionasec, Matthias John, Jan Boese, Dorin Comaniciu
domain:: Image-Guided Intervention, Computer Vision, Cardiology, Computational Modeling
link:: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9155470B2/en

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Abstract
A method and system for model-based fusion of pre-operative image data and intra-operative fluoroscopic images is disclosed. A fluoroscopic image and an ultrasound image are received. The ultrasound image is mapped to a 3D coordinate system of a fluoroscopic image acquisition device used to acquire the fluoroscopic image. Contours of an anatomical structure are detected in the ultrasound image, and a transformation is calculated between the ultrasound image and a pre-operative CT image based on the contours and a patient-specific physiological model extracted from the pre-operative CT image. A final mapping is determined between the CT image and the fluoroscopic image based on the transformation between the ultrasound image and physiological model and the mapping of the ultrasound image to the 3D coordinate system of the fluoroscopic image acquisition device. The CT image or the physiological model can then be projected into the fluoroscopic image.
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- US9155470B2 — granted US patent (kind code B2)
- Filed 2013-01-15, granted 2015-10-13
- Legal status today — Active
- Assignee — Siemens AG
- Co-inventors — Sasa Grbic, Peter Mountney, Matthias John, Jan Boese, Dorin Comaniciu
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