Patent ID: 9506882
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G01N,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A method for performing real-time fluoroscopy image sequence processing in a fluoroscopy system, the method comprising: loading at least a first image frame of the fluoroscopy image sequence into an upper level memory of a hierarchical memory system that is coupled to at least one processing core, wherein the hierarchical memory system comprises at least the upper level memory and an L1 level memory having a faster access time than the upper level memory; processing the first image frame with an object detection filter to form a likelihood image frame; spatially filtering the first image frame with the likelihood image frame using a spatial filter look up table (LUT) employing a single 1-parameter stored in the L1 level memory; and temporally filtering the spatially filtered image frame using a temporal filter LUT stored in the L1 level memory, wherein the coefficients of the spatial filter are derived with employment of coefficients of the likelihood image.