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DETERMINING POSITION OF MEDICAL DEVICE IN BRANCHED ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE

  • US 20140180063A1
  • Filed: 10/08/2013
  • Published: 06/26/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2012
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A medical system comprising:

  • a memory storing information of a computer model of a branched anatomical structure; and

    a processor programmed to register the computer model to a medical device for determining a position of the medical device in the branched anatomical structure by determining a most likely match between information which has been extracted from a sequence of images that has been captured by an image capturing device from a perspective of a distal end of the medical device while moving through a path including a plurality of lumens in the branched anatomical structure and corresponding information that has been extracted from the computer model of the branched anatomical structure.

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