18904130. LIVE CO-REGISTRATION OF EXTRAVASCULAR AND INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING (Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.)
LIVE CO-REGISTRATION OF EXTRAVASCULAR AND INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING
Organization Name
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
Inventor(s)
Hatice Cinar Akakin of Eden Prairie MN US
Erik Stephen Freed of Maple Grove MN US
Kevin Bloms of Minneapplolis MN US
Wenguang Li of Los Gatos CA US
LIVE CO-REGISTRATION OF EXTRAVASCULAR AND INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18904130 titled 'LIVE CO-REGISTRATION OF EXTRAVASCULAR AND INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING
Original Abstract Submitted
The present disclosure provides to co-register intravascular images of a vessel with one or more extravascular images of the vessel in real-time, such as, during acquisition of the extravascular images. Key points in a first frame of the extravascular images can be identified and then tracked across other frames of the extravascular images. The intravascular images can be co-registered to a frame (or frames) of the extravascular images based on the locations of the key points in the frame.