Patents by Inventor Pascal Yves François CATHIER
Pascal Yves François CATHIER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11887236Abstract: An OSS animated display system for an interventional device (40) including an integration of one or more optical shape sensors and one or more interventional tools. The OSS animated display system employs a monitor (121) and a display controller (110) for controlling a real-time display on the monitor (121) of an animation of a spatial positional relationship between the OSS interventional device (40) and an object (50). The display controller (110) derives the animation of the spatial positional relationship between the OSS interventional device (40) and the object (50) from a shape of the optical shape sensor(s).Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2018Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Paul Thienphrapa, Neriman Nicoletta Kahya, Olivier Pierre Nempont, Pascal Yves François Cathier, Molly Lara Flexman, Torre Michelle Bydlon, Raoul Florent
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Patent number: 11589943Abstract: A torque detection vascular therapy system employing a vascular therapy device (101) and a torque detection controller (130). The vascular therapy device (101) is operable to be transitioned from a pre-deployed state to a post-deployed state, and includes a matrix of imageable markers representative of a geometry of the vascular therapy device (101).Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Paul Thienphrapa, Pascal Yves Francois Cathier, Ashish Panse, Molly Lara Flexman, Torre Michelle Bydlon, Neriman Nicoletta Kahya
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Patent number: 11478309Abstract: According to some implementations, a n medical interventional imaging device for monitoring an interventional procedure is described. The medical interventional imaging device includes a temporary data buffer configured to temporarily store medical interventional fluoroscopic image data, a signal processor configured to detect if an abnormal state occurs during an intervention and to record an instant at which the abnormal state has occurred, and a permanent data storage configured to permanently store at least a part of the medical interventional fluoroscopic image data stored temporarily before and/or at the recorded instant if the abnormal state is detected.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Pascal Yves Francois Cathier, Raoul Florent, Olivier Pierre Nempont, Guillaume Julien Joseph Pizaine
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Patent number: 11373361Abstract: The present invention relates to image processing for enhancing ultrasound images. In order to provide image data showing the current situation, for example in a region of interest of a patient, an image processing device (10) for enhancing ultrasound images is provided that comprises an image data input unit (12), a central processing unit (14), and a display unit (16). The image data input unit is configured to provide an ultrasound image of a region of interest of an object, and to provide an X-ray image of the region of interest of the object. The central processing unit is configured to select a predetermined image area in the X-ray image, to register the ultrasound image and the X-ray image, to detect the predetermined area in the ultrasound image based on the registered selected predetermined image area, and to highlight at least a part of the detected area in the ultrasound image to generate a boosted ultrasound image.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Olivier Pierre Nempont, Pascal Yves Francois Cathier, Raoul Florent
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Patent number: 11291424Abstract: The present invention relates to displaying spatial information of an interventional device in a live 2D X-ray image. In order to provide a facilitated visualization technique to provide 3D information of a subject, a device (10) for providing spatial information of an interventional device in a live 2D X-ray image is provided. The device comprises an input unit (12), and a processing unit (16). The input unit is configured to provide an actual 2D X-ray image (18) of a region of interest related to a portion of a patient's body. A target location (22) lies within the region of interest. At least a portion (20) of an interventional device is arranged in the region of interest. The input unit is configured to provide actual 3D ultrasound data of at least a part of the region of interest and at least a portion of an interventional device (19). The target location (22) lies within the region of interest. The processing unit is configured to register the actual 3D ultrasound data to the actual 2D X-ray image.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Olivier Pierre Nempont, Pascal Yves Francois Cathier, Raoul Florent
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Patent number: 11213273Abstract: A method for ultrasound image acquisition for tracking an object of interest in ultrasound image information includes receiving X-ray image information and ultrasound image information, determining, before the tracking, a spatial relationship between the X-ray image information and the ultrasound image information, detecting an object of interest in the X-ray image information and steering two-dimensional ultrasound image acquisition such that the object of interest is within an ultrasound image plane.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Pascal Yves François Cathier, Olivier Pierre Nempont, Raoul Florent
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Publication number: 20210196400Abstract: According to some implementations, a n medical interventional imaging device for monitoring an interventional procedure is described. The medical interventional imaging device includes a temporary data buffer configured to temporarily store medical interventional fluoroscopic image data, a signal processor configured to detect if an abnormal state occurs during an intervention and to record an instant at which the abnormal state has occurred, and a permanent data storage configured to permanently store at least a part of the medical interventional fluoroscopic image data stored temporarily before and/or at the recorded instant if the abnormal state is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Pascal Yves Francois CATHIER, Raoul FLORENT, Olivier Pierre NEMPONT, Guillaume Julien Joseph PIZAINE
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Patent number: 11026658Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for positioning a marker (2) in a 3D ultrasonic image volume (3), a system for positioning a marker (2) in a 3D ultrasonic image volume (3), a method for positioning a marker (2) in a 3D ultrasonic image volume (3), a computer program element for controlling such device (1) for performing such method and a computer readable medium having stored such computer program element. The device (1) comprises an image provision unit (11), a marker unit (12) and a display unit (13). The image provision unit (11) is configured to provide a 3D ultrasonic image volume (3) showing an object (4). The marker unit (12) is configured to position a marker (2) in the 3D ultrasonic image volume (3). The display unit (13) is configured to display the 3D ultrasonic image volume (3) and the marker (2) in a first imaging view (31) in a first imaging plane and in a second imaging view (32) in a second, different imaging plane.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Thierry Lefevre, Pascal Yves Francois Cathier, Cybele Ciofolo-Veit
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Publication number: 20210085421Abstract: A torque detection vascular therapy system employing a vascular therapy device (101) and a torque detection controller (130). The vascular therapy device (101) is operable to be transitioned from a pre-deployed state to a post-deployed state, and includes a matrix of imageable markers representative of a geometry of the vascular therapy device (101).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Paul THIENPHRAPA, Pascal Yves Francois CATHIER, Ashish PANSE, Molly Lara FLEXMAN, Torre Michelle BYDLON, Neriman Nicoletta KAHYA
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Patent number: 10925677Abstract: The present invention relates to an medical interventional imaging device (1) for monitoring an interventional procedure, the medical interventional imaging device (1) comprising: a temporary data buffer (10) configured to temporarily store medical interventional fluoroscopic image data; a signal processor (20) configured to detect if an abnormal state occurs during an intervention and to record an instant at which the abnormal state has occurred; and a permanent data storage (30) configured to permanently store at least a part of the medical interventional fluoroscopic image data stored temporarily before and/or at the recorded instant if the abnormal state is detected.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Pascal Yves François Cathier, Raoul Florent, Olivier Pierre Nempont, Guillaume Julien Joseph Pizaine
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Publication number: 20200402286Abstract: An OSS animated display system for an interventional device (40) including an integration of one or more optical shape sensors and one or more interventional tools. The OSS animated display system employs a monitor (121) and a display controller (110) for controlling a real-time display on the monitor (121) of an animation of a spatial positional relationship between the OSS interventional device (40) and an object (50). The display controller (110) derives the animation of the spatial positional relationship between the OSS interventional device (40) and the object (50) from a shape of the optical shape sensor(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2018Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Paul THIENPHRAPA, Neriman Nicoletta KAHYA, Olivier Pierre NEMPONT, Pascal Yves François CATHIER, Molly Lara FLEXMAN, Torre Michelle BYDLON, Raoul FLORENT
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Patent number: 10820874Abstract: A system (1) and a corresponding method enable an enhanced roadmapping visualization without unnecessary device-footprints. The system (1) includes an x-ray imaging device (3) for acquiring x-ray images and a calculation unit (5). The x-ray imaging device (3) is adapted for acquiring a first x-ray image (21) with an interventional device (17) present in the vessels (19) while no contrast agent is present in the vessels (19) and a second x-ray image (23) with the interventional device (17) present in the vessels (19) while contrast agent is present in the vessels (19). The calculation unit is adapted for creating a roadmap image (27) by subtracting the first x-ray image (21) from the second x-ray image (23) and automatically minimizing the visibility of the interventional device (17) in the roadmap image (27). A display unit (7) is adapted to display the roadmap image (27) or an overlay of a current fluoroscopy image (31) with the roadmap image (27).Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Olivier Pierre Nempont, Pascal Yves Francois Cathier, Raoul Florent, Guillaume Julien Joseph Pizaine
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Patent number: 10682112Abstract: A medical image viewing device for navigation in X-ray imaging includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform a 3D-2D registration of a preoperative three-dimensional volume based on geometry parameters of an image data provider, which provides fluoroscopy images of an object of interest and a plurality of structures with interfering motions to be removed, for creating digitally reconstructed radiograph images of these structures for each fluoroscopy image. These are subtracted from the respective fluoroscopy images to generate structure-suppressed fluoroscopy images free from interfering motions. Based on these structure-suppressed fluoroscopy images, an angiographic image sequence is generated performing a motion estimation of the structures.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Guilaume Julien Joseph Pizaine, Pascal Yves Francois Cathier, Olivier Pierre Nempont, Raoul Florent
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Patent number: 10602959Abstract: A position determination apparatus for determining the position of a working element arranged within an object having an inner structure with respect to a model of the object. The position and shape of a registration element within the inner structure of the object are provided and used for determining a transformation relating the inner structure of the model and the position and shape of the registration element with respect to each other, wherein the position of the working element with respect to the model is determined depending on a provided spatial relation between the working element and the registration element and the determined transformation.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Pascal Yves Francois Cathier, Olivier Pierre Nempont, Raoul Florent
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Publication number: 20200085398Abstract: The present invention relates to displaying spatial information of an interventional device in a live 2D X-ray image. In order to provide a facilitated visualization technique to provide 3D information of a subject, a device (10) for providing spatial information of an interventional device in a live 2D X-ray image is provided. The device comprises an input unit (12), and a processing unit (16). The input unit is configured to provide an actual 2D X-ray image (18) of a region of interest related to a portion of a patient's body. A target location (22) lies within the region of interest. At least a portion (20) of an interventional device is arranged in the region of interest. The input unit is configured to provide actual 3D ultrasound data of at least a part of the region of interest and at least a portion of an interventional device (19). The target location (22) lies within the region of interest. The processing unit is configured to register the actual 3D ultrasound data to the actual 2D X-ray image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: OLIVIER PIERRE NEMPONT, PASCAL YVES FRANCOIS CATHIER, RAOUL FLORENT
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Publication number: 20190254623Abstract: A method for ultrasound image acquisition for tracking an object of interest in ultrasound image information includes receiving X-ray image information and ultrasound image information, determining, before the tracking, a spatial relationship between the X-ray image information and the ultrasound image information, detecting an object of interest in the X-ray image information and steering two-dimensional ultrasound image acquisition such that the object of interest is within an ultrasound image plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Pascal Yves François CATHIER, Olivier Pierre NEMPONT, Raoul FLORENT
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Publication number: 20190133492Abstract: The invention relates to a cavity determination apparatus for determining a cavity within an object, in particular, for determining the location and dimensions of a heart chamber within a person without use of electrode contact information. A bendable segment of an introduction element is arranged within the cavity in different arrangements, wherein curves defined by the bendable segment in the different arrangements are determined by a curve determination unit. A cavity reconstruction unit reconstructs the cavity based on the determined curves. Thus, not only single locations within the cavity are acquired and used for reconstructing the cavity, but larger curves. A considerable amount of spatial information can therefore be acquired and used very rapidly. This allows reconstructing the cavity with improved quality in a relatively short time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2019Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Pascal Yves François CATHIER, Olivier Pierre Nempont, Raoul Florent
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Patent number: 10238361Abstract: The invention proposes to detect and track an intervention device in a 2D fluoroscopy image and to steer an ultrasound probe beam towards this device. Therefore, a method and corresponding system is proposed, by which an ultrasound probe is registered in a fluoroscopy image, wherein the registering includes the estimation of the position and of the orientation of the probe relative to the fluoroscopy.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Nicolas Pierre Bruno Gogin, Raoul Florent, Pascal Yves Francois Cathier
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Patent number: 10182745Abstract: The invention relates to a cavity determination apparatus for determining a cavity (3) within an object (2), in particular, for determining the location and dimensions of a heart chamber within a person. A bendable segment of an introduction element (5) is arranged within the cavity in different arrangements, wherein curves defined by the bendable segment in the different arrangements are determined by a curve determination unit (7). A cavity reconstruction unit (8) reconstructs the cavity based on the determined curves. Thus, not only single locations within the cavity are acquired and used for reconstructing the cavity, but larger curves. A lot of spatial information can therefore be acquired and used very fast. This allows reconstructing the cavity with improved quality in a relatively short time.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Pascal Yves Francois Cathier, Olivier Pierre Nempont, Raoul Florent
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Patent number: 10157491Abstract: An apparatus for visualizing image material in a multimodal imaging environment. Images (XF, USV) from an X-ray imager (100) and an ultrasound probe (USP) are fused into an interactive graphics display (GUI) to form a 3D scene, where, alongside to a 3D rendering (USS) of an ultrasound volume (USV) an X-Ray projection plan (XF) is displayed in perspective within the same scene. The rendering is according to a user selected view (UV) which is changeable upon user interaction with the interactive graphics display (GUI).Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2013Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Raoul Florent, Olivier Pierre Nempont, Pascal Yves Francois Cathier, Niels Nijhof