Patent ID: 8805003

Claim:
A device for localizing an object of interest in a subject comprising: a registration unit configured to register a three-dimensional representation of the subject, which comprises a plurality of segments corresponding to a plurality of structural regions of the subject, with a two-dimensional image, wherein the registration unit is configured to define a plurality of areas in the image corresponding to the plurality of segments such that at least one area of the plurality of areas is associated with a respective region of the plurality of structural regions; and a localization unit configured to localize the object, wherein the localization unit is configured to extract an indication of the object from the image by processing the image registered with the three-dimensional representation, wherein the plurality of areas are displayed, and wherein an accuracy of localizing the object with reduced computation power or computation time is increased by limiting the processing of the image registered with the three-dimensional representation to an object area of the plurality of areas which is associated with a predetermined object region.