ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,992, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Volumetric filter of fluoroscopic sweep video" was invented by Ariel Birenbaum (Raanana, Israel), Shaked Pessah (Maccabim-Reut, Israel) and Guy Alexandroni (Yehud-Monosson, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Object detection including receiving a fluoroscopic video including a plurality of fluoroscopic images captured by a fluoroscope rotated about a patient, generating a three-dimensional (3D) volumetric reconstruction from the fluoroscopic images, deleting values in the 3D volumetric reconstruction beyond a region of interest about an object, generating 2D...