SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY REGISTERING THREE DIMENSIONAL CARDIAC IMAGES WITH ELECTRO-ANATOMICAL CARDIAC MAPPING DATA

A system and method for automatically registering a three dimensional (3D) pre-operative image of an anatomical structure with intra-operative electrophysiological (EP) points of a 3D electro-anatomical (EA) image map of the anatomical structure is disclosed. The pre-operative image is displayed in a first supporting view. The intra-operative EA image map is displayed in a second supporting view. An alignment of the pre-operative image with the intra-operative map is performed by identifying at least one corresponding point on each image. The view of the pre-operative image is integrated with the EA map based on the alignment.