US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Oct. 7 for "Method and system for vascular catheter tip detection in medical images" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,688, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and system for vascular catheter tip detection in medical images" was invented by Rui Liao (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Venkatesh Narasimha Murthy (Hillsborough, N.J.), Yue Zhang (Jersey City, N.J.) and Abdoul Aziz Amadou (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tip of a vascular catheter is detected in a sequence of vessel image frames obtained using x-rays. Within the vessel image frames, a proximal point corresponding to a vessel ostium is determined. The sequence of vessel image frames are cropped to an image area surrounding the proximal p...