Medical examination and treatment device for visualization and treatment of ablation lesion in tissue or vascular surface of heart, has pattern recognizing unit identifying ablation lesion, and display displaying conditioned endoscope image

摘要

The device has a flexible catheter (2) arranged at a distal end (6), and an endoscope (12) inserted into a catheter hollow space (10) with an objective (20) positioned in a monitoring position within a balloon (28). A digital image processing system real-time processes an image produced by the endoscope, and includes a pattern recognizing unit that identifies an ablation lesion based on color difference compared to surrounding tissue and local distribution of image entropy marked at the image. A display displays a conditioned endoscope image.