Patent ID: 11963740
Assignee: CANON U.S.A., INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 17:
18. The method of claim 12, further comprising one or more of the following:
performing the extracting of the lumen edge(s) or the portions of the lumen edge(s) from secondary peaks near the border of the lumen and the one or more stents or stent struts, the extracted lumen edge(s) or portions of the lumen edges being used to form the additional valid lumen edge or edges;
identifying one or more valid lumen edges or portions of the lumen edge or edges that exist as the second peaks behind a stent peak near the border region; and/or
including the extracted one or more valid lumen edges in lumen edge results to improve the quality of the lumen edge results and to help form or create the whole lumen curve.