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

Claim 15:
16. A computing unit 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 images depicting, at least partially, a same body region of a patient, comprising:
a definition unit, adapted to define at least one image segment within the target image;
a registration unit, adapted to register the reference image with the target image by establishing at least one respective registration matrix for each respective image segment;
a detection unit, adapted to detect a position of a surgical instrument in the current image, the position corresponding to one image segment of the target image; and
a generation unit, adapted to generate the medical result image by fusing the current image and the reference image using the respective registration matrix assigned to the one image segment according to the position of the surgical instrument.