System and method for enhanced data analysis with specialized video enabled software tools for medical environments

Abstract

Medical software tools platforms utilize a surgical display to provide access to specific medical software tools, such as medically-oriented applications or widgets, that can assist surgeons or surgical team in performing various procedures. In particular, an endoscopic camera may register the momentary rise in the optical signature reflected from a tissue surface and in turn transmit it to a medical image processing system which can also receive patient heart rate data and display relevant anomalies. Changes in various spectral components and the speed at which they change in relation to a source of stimulus (heartbeat, breathing, light source modulation, etc.) may indicate the arrival of blood, contrast agents or oxygen absorption. Combinations of these may indicate various states of differing disease or margins of tumors, and so forth. Also, changes in temperatures, physical dimensions, pressures, photoacoustic pressures and the rate of change may indicate tissue anomalies in comparison to historic values.

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[0001]PRIORITY CLAIMS[0002]This application, a continuation in part, claims the benefit of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15 / 652,031, filed Jul. 17, 2017, which is a continuation in part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15 / 456,458, filed Mar. 10 2017, which is a continuation in part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15 / 377,817, filed Dec. 13, 2016, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 107,329, filed Dec. 16, 2013, and issued as U.S. Pat. No. 9,526,586 on Dec. 27, 2016, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61 / 865,037, filed Aug. 12, 2013. This application also claims the benefit of and is a continuation in part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15 / 170,575, filed Jun. 1, 2016, which claims the benefit of Ser. No. 13 / 430,489, filed Mar. 26, 2012, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12 / 776,048, filed May 7, 2010, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Applications Ser. No....

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Benefits of technology

[0008]Various embodiments of the disclosed technology provide a medical software tools platform that utilizes a surgical display to provide access to medical software tools, such as medically-oriented applications or widgets, that can assist those in the operating room, such as a surgeon and their surgical team, with a surgery. For various embodiments, the medical software tools platform and its associated medical software tools are presented on a surgical display (e.g., being utilized in an operating room) over an image stream provided by a surgical camera (e.g., in use in the operating room) or other medical device that generates image streams. An image stream can include video or a series of static images (e.g., medical ultrasound device). Various medical software tools can provide features and functions that can facilitate integration of equipment in an operating room or add medical context awareness to anatomic structures presented in the image stream from the surgical camera.

Problems solved by technology

While this brings many benefits to patients, it presents a number of challenges for the surgeon who must work within a very confined surgical compartment.

In particular, surgeons must deal with poor visibility, limited lighting, and a narrow viewing angle.

Because of their size, conventional medical imaging devices tend to have limited imaging resolution, often fail to provide more than one perspective of biological tissue, and due to visible lighting constraints, often fail to show differences in biological tissue.

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