CPC A61B 8/12 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0035 (2013.01); A61B 5/0066 (2013.01); A61B 5/0084 (2013.01); A61B 5/02007 (2013.01); A61B 5/061 (2013.01); A61B 5/6852 (2013.01); A61B 90/36 (2016.02); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10101 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30021 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method of a detecting a guide catheter disposed in a lumen of a blood vessel the method comprising:
receiving, by one or more processors, intravascular data collected during a pullback of an intravascular imaging probe through the blood vessel, wherein the intravascular data comprises a plurality of frames;
on a per frame basis of the received intravascular data performing, by the one or more processors, a circle fit to determine a per frame diameter value of the lumen of the blood vessel;
identifying, by the one or more processors, one or more frames of the plurality of frames that includes guide catheter image data by identifying a deviation in one or more of the per frame diameter values of the lumen of the blood vessel;
excluding, by the one or more processors, the one or more frames of the plurality of frames that include the guide catheter image data from an intravascular data processing module; and
processing, by the one or more processors using the intravascular data processing module, the remaining frames of the plurality of frames.
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