United States
US 12,697,088 B2
System and method for tracking a curved needle
US 12,697,088 B2 is a granted patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), dated 2026-08-04. Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY. Its PDF downloads from this page without an account, up to 5 a day.
- Applicant
- CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
- Inventors
- John Michael Galeotti; Wanwen Chen
- Publication date
- 2026-08-04
- Filing date
- 2023-09-25
- Document type
- B2 Granted patent
- Also written as
- US 12,697,088 B2 · US12697088 · 12697088
Abstract
Provided is a system, method, and computer program product for tracking a needle. The method includes determining a visibility of the needle being inserted into a subject in an image of a sequence of images, in response to determining that the visibility satisfies a visibility threshold, detecting a location of the needle based on at least one first algorithm and a detected curvature of the needle, in response to determining that the visibility does not satisfy the visibility threshold, detecting the location of the needle being inserted based on at least one second algorithm, and tracking the…
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