Patent Document ID: 9788786
Application ID: 14112369
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for automatic detection on clinical relevance of images of an anatomical situation provided by an imaging device, the method comprising: taking a first image of the anatomical situation at a first time; taking a second image of the anatomical situation at a second later time; comparing the first image and the second image and determining a difference between the first image and the second image by separating each of the first image and the second image into a plurality of corresponding image blocks each comprising a plurality of pixels, and comparing at least one of the corresponding image blocks of the first and second image; determining whether the difference between the first image and the second image comprises at least one of a local type difference and a global type difference, wherein the local type difference is a local difference of the first image and the second image and wherein the global type difference is a global difference between the first image and the second image, and determining whether the second image has clinical relevance by determining whether the difference between the first image and the second image comprises a local type difference, wherein the local type difference is detected if a first difference of a single image block of the first image and a corresponding single image block of the second image exceeds a first predetermined threshold and wherein the global type difference is detected if a second difference of all of the blocks of the plurality of blocks of the first image and all the blocks of the second image exceeds a second predetermined threshold, wherein the second threshold is larger than the first threshold.