Patent Document ID: 20060133567
Application ID: 10543577
Patent Status: 0

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 for detecting a set of alarms of said object of interest in a medical image at time t, temporal tracking means comprising: track creation sub-means for iteratively creating a set of tracks at time t by associating alarms of said set of alarms with tracks at time t−1, a track at time t−1 comprising a predicted alarm at time t and an association of an alarm at time t with said predicted alarm at time t forming a track at time t, decision sub-means for choosing a track from among said set of tracks at time t in accordance with a merit criterion, the alarm of said track at time t corresponding to a detection of said object of interest in said medical image at time t.