Needle detection in medical image data

摘要

A system for processing an image data volume acquired with a medical imaging acquisition device 100 from a body comprising a needle is provided. It has been realized it is advantageous to display 150 a plane intersecting the image data volume showing the needle to a user of the system. This allows better positioning of the needle. The system comprises a needle-plane determination 110 module for determining a plane being parallel to and intersecting a representation in the image data volume of the needle and being parallel to a viewing direction. The needle plane determination module may make use of pixel processing and/or spectral transformation, in particular the Gabor transform.

主权项

1. A system for processing an image data volume acquired with a medical imaging acquisition device from a body comprising a needle, the system comprising:
a viewing direction storage to store a predetermined viewing direction, a needle-plane determination module to determine a needle plane parallel to the viewing direction and parallel to and intersecting a representation in the image data volume of the needle, and a display module to display a representation of the image data in the intersection between the needle plane and the image data volume.