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AU Panagiota Spyridonos
   Fernando Vilariño
   Jordi Vitria
   Petia Radeva
   Fernando Azpiroz
   Juan Malagelada
AU US Patent Office
TI Device, system and method for automatic detection of contractile activity in an image frame
PY 2011
AB A device, system and method for automatic detection of contractile activity of a body lumen in an image frame is provided, wherein image frames during contractile activity are captured and/or image frames including contractile activity are automatically detected, such as through pattern recognition and/or feature extraction to trace image frames including contractions, e.g., with wrinkle patterns. A manual procedure of annotation of contractions, e.g. tonic contractions in capsule endoscopy, may consist of the visualization of the whole video by a specialist, and the labeling of the contraction frames. Embodiments of the present invention may be suitable for implementation in an in vivo imaging system.
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