Patent Document ID: 7620221
Application ID: 10543577
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A real time medical viewing system for enhancing an object of interest in a sequence of medical images, comprising: alarm detection means ( 20 ) for detecting a set of alarms (A t ) of said object of interest in a medical image (I t ) at time t, temporal tracking means ( 30 ) comprising: track creation sub-means ( 70 ) for iteratively creating a set of tracks (T t ) at time t by associating alarms of said set of alarms (A t ) with tracks (T t−1 ) at time t−1, a track (T j t−1 ) at time t−1 comprising a predicted alarm (Ap j t ) at time t and an association of an alarm (A i t ) at time t with said predicted alarm (Ap j t ) at time t forming a track (T j t ) at time t, decision sub-means ( 80 ) for choosing a track (T j t ) from among said set of tracks (T t ) at time tin accordance with a merit criterion (M i,j t ), the alarm (A i t ) of said track (T j t ) at time t corresponding to a detection of said object of interest in said medical image at time t.