SYSTEMS FOR TRACKING THE POSITION OF A ROBOTICLY MANIPULATED SURGICAL INSTRUMENT
Patent Information
- Application Number
- DE602019076896
- Authority / Receiving Office
- DE · DE
- Patent Type
- Patents
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Priority Date
- 2018-07-31
- Filing Date
- 2019-07-27
- Publication Date
- 2025-10-15
- Estimated Expiration
- 2039-07-27
AI Technical Summary
Tracking the precise, accurate, and reliable position of robotically-manipulated surgical instruments within a surgical area is technically challenging, particularly in minimally-invasive surgeries, and existing methods often require dedicated computer vision markers that are costly and prone to occlusion.
A surgical instrument tracking system that uses a trained neural network to process endoscopic imagery, associate object observations with robotic instrument kinematics, and determine the instrument's position without dedicated markers, employing a probabilistic framework and kinematic corrections for precision and reliability.
Enables precise, accurate, and efficient marker-less tracking of surgical instruments in real-time or near real-time, overcoming the limitations of traditional marker-based systems.