Patent ID: 11915446
Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A computing unit comprising at least one processor, configured to implement a method for generating a medical result image (RESI) using a current image (CI), a target image (TI) and a reference image (REFI), each of the RESI, CI, TI and REFI depicting, at least partially, a same body region of a patient, the method comprising:
defining at least one image segment within the target image;
registering the reference image with the target image by establishing a registration matrix for each respective image segment within the target image, the respective registration matrix being specific for the respective image segment;
detecting a position of a surgical instrument in the current image, the position corresponding to an image segment of the target image; and
generating the medical result image by fusing the current image and the reference image using the respective registration matrix assigned to the respective image segment according to the position of the surgical instrument within the current image.