REAL-TIME MEDICAL DEVICE TRACKING METHOD FROM ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES FOR REMOTE HOLOGRAPHIC PROCTORING

摘要

The present invention concerns a method for visualizing, by a remote holographic device (112), a medical image stream acquired at an intervention site, the method comprising the execution of the following steps: A. Acquiring a medical image stream of a patient body organ by a medical acquisition apparatus (101), wherein a medical device is inserted in the patient body organ during an intervention; B. Streaming (102) the medical image stream to a virtual machine on a server (105); C. Identifying, by an expert algorithm (107) on the sole basis of the image stream, running on said virtual machine, the digital position and orientation of the medical device and at least two digital anatomical landmarks on at least a subset of images in the image stream; D. Generating a graphical element representing the digital position and orientation of the medical device, and overlaying the graphical element to said a subset of images, obtaining an overlaid image stream; E. Reformatting (108) the overlaid image stream into a video signal; and F. Sending the video signal to the remote holographic device (112) for visualization.