Method for automated localization of a specific tissue type during an endoscopic procedure, and associated image recording system

Abstract

An approach for allowing the automated localization, within a recorded image (3), of a specific tissue type (6) within an operating region (9) using an image recording system (1). Here, provision is made for two temporally successive selection steps A and B to be used to identify and select those image regions (4) within the image which show the desired tissue type. The scope of the first selection step A includes both a spatial restriction of the image regions (5) and optionally a reduction in the spectral information to be processed and/or in the pixels to be processed of the respective image. Only in the second selection step B is the target tissue type actually to be determined then finally identified within the image and selected as second image regions so that a user can ultimately locate this tissue type within the region observed using the image recording system.

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