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Method and device for automated detection of the central line of at least one portion of a tubular tissue structure

US9504435B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Dominik Bernhardt · Eschborn, DE
Christina Biermann · Eschborn, DE
Michael Scheuering · Koblenzer Straße, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 1, 2010
Grant date	Nov 29, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 9, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2207/30172
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method and a device are disclosed for automated detection of at least one part of the central line of at least one portion of a tubular tissue structure. In at least one embodiment of the method, characteristic landmarks of the tubular tissue structure are detected in a 3D data record of the tubular tissue structure; the detected characteristic landmarks of the tubular tissue structure and landmarks of a model of landmarks, which model belongs to the tubular tissue structure and takes into account the position of the landmarks relative to one another, are related to one another such that at least one portion of the tubular tissue structure is identified in the 3D data record of the tubular tissue structure. The central line of the identified portion of the tubular tissue structure is determined at least in part on the basis of at least one detected characteristic landmark and/or at least one landmark of the model of landmarks.

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