82 results about "Endoamnioscopy" patented technology

The invention relates to the field of endoscope image processing, and particularly discloses an automatic lesion recognition system for endoscopy of the digestive system department, which is characterized in that after a preprocessed original endoscope image is acquired, a double-branch parallel processing architecture is used to acquire characteristics with low resolution and rich semantic information through a deep context branch, and the characteristics of the original endoscope image are acquired. The potential area of the focus is accurately deduced; meanwhile, the fine texture of the mucous membrane is captured in a lossless manner through shallow detail branches which keep high resolution in the whole process. Furthermore, through a context-guided asymmetric enhancement mechanism, a global view of a deep branch is utilized to generate an uncertainty perception attention map as a reference, and weak detail features corresponding to a potential focus area in a shallow branch are accurately irradiated and adaptively enhanced. Thus, a conservative enhancement strategy is adopted in an uncertain focus area, background noise is effectively inhibited, and therefore the detection sensitivity and robustness of low-contrast and flat focuses are fundamentally improved.

The present disclosure provides an endoscopic apparatus and associated methods. The apparatus may include a steerable tool having a first flexible tube concentrically nested within a second flexible tube. The apparatus may include an end cap disposed on the steerable tool, an image sensor disposed on the end cap, and one or more light sources disposed on the end cap. The apparatus may be configured for accessing a region within a middle ear cavity of a patient. As such, the apparatus may further include a flexible tube, through which the steerable tool may extend, as well as a pre-curved rigid tube, through which the flexible tube may extend, thus allowing the apparatus to be deployed for middle ear access.

Embodiments generally relate to propulsion devices, systems, or components thereof, for progressing instruments along passages, as well as associated methods of manufacture. For example, the instruments may include tools, sensors, probes and / or monitoring equipment for medical use (such as endoscopy) or industrial use (such as mining). The described embodiments may also be suitable for applications in other fields to progress an instrument along a passage. Some embodiments relate to an endoscope comprising or configured to receive a propulsion tube configured to assist in progressing the endoscope along a passage.

An electromagnetic suturing device comprises a body, a coil in the body and a suturing element actuatable by a magnetic suturing track extending into the first end face, a second arm having a second end face opposing the first end face, a second suturing track extending into the second end face, a coil in the first arm, and a suturing element drivable by a magnetic field generated by the coil to move from the first suturing track to the second suturing track. An electro-magnetic hammer suturing device comprises a housing and a coil in the housing, a shuttle to reciprocate in the housing by an electromagnetic field generated by the coil and a suturing element to be actuated by the shuttle.

A method of using an endoscope that includes performing an endoscopy task with an endoscope. The endoscope includes a rod that is coupled to the endoscope and that extends from a rod base to a rod end. Performing the endoscopy task with the endoscope includes manipulating, by a hand of a user, a neck of the endoscope to move the neck along the length of the rod and to extend and retract a head of the neck a desired length past the rod end to perform the endoscopy task while the user is holding the endoscope.

The utility model relates to the technical field of medical instruments, in particular to intelligent endoscopy equipment which comprises an endoscope lens and a wire jacket, and the endoscope lens is arranged at one end of the wire jacket; the adjusting mechanism is mounted in the wire jacket, and one end of the adjusting mechanism penetrates into the endoscope lens; wherein the adjusting mechanism comprises an internal wire fixedly connected to the interior of the endoscope lens, and the other end of the internal wire penetrates into the interior of the wire jacket; according to the intelligent endoscopy equipment, under the action of the adjusting assembly, the observation irradiation angle of the endoscope lens can be adjusted, gas is injected into the inner guide pipe through the control assembly, the gas in the inner guide pipe is guided into the adjacent inner cavity, and therefore due to the fact that the surface of the silica gel sheet is in a wavy shape, the observation irradiation angle of the endoscope lens can be adjusted. Therefore, the angle of the endoscope lens is adjusted, and the observation effect of the endoscope is guaranteed.

This endoscope comprises: a rotating shaft which has a first shaft, a second shaft, and a protruding part that connects the first shaft to the second shaft; a pulley which is coupled to the protruding part and rotates together with the first shaft; an operation knob which is coupled to the second shaft, rotates together with the first shaft and the second shaft, and can be tilted with respect to the first shaft; a first wire which has a proximal end connected to the pulley and is wound around the pulley as the operation knob rotates; a second wire which has a proximal end held by the first shaft and is pulled as the operation knob tilts; a flexible tube in which the first wire and the second wire are disposed; and a curved part which is disposed at the tip end part of the flexible tube and connected with the tip end part of the first wire and the tip end part of the second wire. The curved part curves as the operation knob rotates or tilts.

The utility model relates to an auxiliary liquid supply device for endoscopy and ESD (Electro-Static Discharge) operation, which comprises a liquid supply unit, a driving mechanism and a blocking mechanism, and the liquid supply unit comprises an endoscope or mucosa cutting knife end liquid supply pipe, a pump pipe, a three-way joint, a liquid container and a connecting pipeline, the pump pipe, the endoscope or mucosa cutting knife end liquid supply pipe and the connecting pipeline are connected to three connectors of the three-way connector respectively, the blocking mechanism comprises a blocking end and an ejector rod, a water pipe clamping groove is formed in the blocking end, the connecting pipeline penetrates through a cylindrical hole section of the water pipe clamping groove, and the ejector rod abuts against the outer surface of the connecting pipeline. The release device is additionally arranged at the position, connected with the pump pipe of the peristaltic pump, of the liquid supply pipe at the end of the endoscope or the mucous membrane cutting knife, the blocking mechanism is additionally arranged on the liquid supply device, the blocking mechanism controls the pressure release channel of the release device to be closed or opened, liquid supply can be immediately fed and stopped, the examination or operation time is shortened, and the operation efficiency is improved. And the experience feeling of doctors and patients is improved.

This invention provides an information processing device, a control method for the information processing device, and a program that can streamline the creation of record documents based on the details of surgeries performed by medical practitioners. [Solution] The information processing device 1 includes an image acquisition unit 31 that acquires medical image information captured during surgery or endoscopic examination, a medical information acquisition unit 32 that acquires audio information including findings spoken during surgery or endoscopic examination, and a record document creation unit 36 ​​that creates a record document based on the medical image information and audio information.

This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for navigating medical instruments. The present implementations more specifically relate to photometric image enhancement techniques for endoscopy. In some aspects, a machine learning model may be trained to infer an enhanced image from a low-quality image captured by the camera of an endoscope. As used herein, the term “low-quality image” refers to any image containing visual artifacts, obstructions, and / or other deficiencies. By contrast, an “enhanced image” is a digitally modified representation of a low-quality image that removes and / or corrects at least some of the visual artifacts, obstructions, or other deficiencies in the low-quality image. A controller for a medical system may extract information from the enhanced image based on one or more image processing operations and generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for navigating the instrument within the anatomy based at least in part on the information extracted from the enhanced image data.

Medical instrument device (10), in particular for use in endoscopic procedures in aqueous and / or non-aqueous solutions, comprising: - an instrument body (12) for insertion into a treatment area (13) and - a thermochromic element (14) which is arranged in and / or on the instrument body (12), wherein the thermochromic element (14) has a thermochromic transition temperature of less than 50°C.

The invention discloses an endoscope auxiliary system and a control method thereof, the endoscope auxiliary system is suitable for an endoscope, and the endoscope auxiliary system comprises a multi-core optical fiber sensor, a looping identification device and a visualization device; the multi-core optical fiber sensor is spirally distributed in the endoscope body along the axial direction of the endoscope body; and the looping identification device is used for receiving and analyzing the reflection spectrum signal of the fiber Bragg grating array in real time, constructing a three-dimensional shape of the endoscope body based on the reflection spectrum signal, identifying whether the endoscope body forms a looping or not based on the three-dimensional shape, and obtaining a looping result. Through combination of the optical fiber sensor and spectrum demodulation, more stable and reliable operation support is provided under the condition that deformation cannot be accurately monitored by a traditional endoscope, and the endoscopic examination efficiency, safety and diagnosis accuracy are improved.

The present invention relates to an endoscopic examination evaluation system and method based on a video understanding network. The system comprises: a behavior and action recognition module, which is configured to perform, on the basis of a pre-trained video understanding network model based on dual-cascade spatio-temporal attention, scene action recognition on an endoscopic examination video frame image collected by a video acquisition module, so as to obtain scene action recognition data; a cleaning-event recognition module, which is configured to perform association and mapping between a scene to be cleaned and a cleaning action in the scene action recognition data, so as to obtain a cleaning-event recognition data set; and an endoscopic examination recording module, which is configured to determine evaluation parameters of an endoscopic examination process on the basis of the cleaning-event recognition data set. In the present invention, semantic action classification and detection are performed on an endoscopic examination operation and a corresponding video image, and semantic action data and stipulated endoscopic examination action data are used to form comparable data to perform auxiliary prompting and index quantification, thereby promoting the standardization of endoscopic examinations.

1. The name of the design product: wireless endoscope (4K). 2. The use of the design product: for endoscopy diagnosis; provide convenient operating environment for minimally invasive surgery. 3. The design points of the design product: in shape. 4. The picture or photo that best indicates the design points: perspective view.

An intraoral assembly for endoscopy, including a bite bar, including a tubular section including a first end and a second end, a first flange arranged at the first end having an indentation therein, a second flange arranged at the second end, and a first through-hole, and a tongue restraint, including, a proximal end, a distal end, a top surface, a bottom surface, a first side, a second side, and a hole extending from the proximal end to a location proximate the distal end, wherein the bite bar is adjustably and removably connectable to the tongue restraint. The tongue restraint having a pair of protrusions arranged in each of a pair of a channels. The tongue restraint having an extension arranged to be seated within the indentation of the bite bar.

The application discloses a plastic auxiliary ventilation mask for endoscopy and belongs to the technical field of medical devices, which comprises a mask body, an endoscope hole is arranged on the front surface of the mask body, and a plug-in pipe sleeve for inserting an endoscope is connected to the endoscope hole; the bottom of the plug-in pipe sleeve is connected with the mask body in communication, and a one-way valve sleeve is connected to the top of the plug-in pipe sleeve; a blocking air bag capable of being contracted or expanded is arranged in the plug-in pipe sleeve, the blocking air bag can block the gap between the endoscope and the plug-in pipe sleeve, a catheter for controlling the ventilation of the blocking air bag is arranged on the blocking air bag, the catheter is connected with the blocking air bag in communication, and the catheter extends to the outside of the mask body; an oxygen supply pipe and an annular memory sponge are arranged on the mask body. The application can ensure the airtightness during use, and the mask body will not leak air when the endoscope is used for examination.

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for generating endoscopic report guidance. The method can be applied to a computing system, or platform, having one or more component servers or computers. The computing system includes receiving patient data of a patient who has gone through a colonoscopy procedure. The computing device further receives endoscopic report data of the patient for the colonoscopy procedure. The endoscopic report data includes indication information including symptoms or reasons for the procedure, and findings and interventions information including details about abnormalities discovered and actions taken during the procedure. The computing device additionally generates, by one or more machine learning models, endoscopic report guidance based on the patient data and the endoscopic report data. The one or more machine learning models may analyze medical diagnostics to provide guidance and recommendations for a medical professional to prepare an endoscopic report.

In this endoscopy assistance method, the remaining time until the end of an examination is calculated on the basis of an examination time set in advance during the examination of an organ using an endoscope and an elapsed time elapsed from the start of the examination, and current position information indicating the position of the organ during the current examination is acquired. By using the remaining time and the current position information, an examination schedule is generated and output, said examination schedule including an examination scheduled time for each divided section in which the position in the organ is divided into a plurality of sections.

Body part identification device (22) for an endoscope which inserts an insertion section (24) into a body cavity of a patient and takes an image of the body cavity, wherein a distal part of the insertion section (24) includes an imaging unit (30) which is configured to identify a body part in a running image just taken by the imaging unit (30), wherein the body part identification device comprises: an insertion depth detector (91, 96) configured to detect an insertion depth of the insertion section (24) inserted into the body cavity; a moving image capture unit (90), configured to capture the moving image; a legacy image acquisition unit (92) configured to acquire at least one legacy image from a legacy image storage unit (52) based on the insertion depth detected by the insertion depth detector, wherein the legacy image storage unit (52) stores the legacy images acquired during at least one previous endoscopic examination; the old images contain additional information about the body part depicted, and a body part identifier (98) configured to identify the depicted body part in the moving image by comparing the old image captured by the old image acquisition unit (92) with the moving image, and determining that the old image is similar to the moving image, wherein the body part identifier (98) is configured to read the imaged body part information of the old image which has the greatest similarity to the running image and to determine the imaged body part based on the read imaged body part information.

To provide an endoscope capable of appropriately bringing a part of an ultrasonic vibrator array into contact with an object part.SOLUTION: An endoscope includes an insertion portion including a distal end portion including an ultrasonic vibrator array and a bending portion provided on a proximal end side of the distal end portion, and a bending operation portion capable of performing a bending operation of the bending portion. The bending portion includes a first region and a second region between the first region and the distal end portion. The first region is bent on a surface side of the distal end portion on which the ultrasonic vibrator array is provided when the bending operation portion is operated in a first range. The second region is held in a state of extending along an axis of the distal end portion when the bending operation portion is operated in the first range.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8

1. Name of the product in this design: Foldable integrated endoscope camera terminal. 2. Purpose of this design: For use during endoscopic examinations, to display video images of the examination area and provide a light source. 3. The key design feature of this product is its shape. 4. The image or photograph that best illustrates the design's key points: a 3D model.

The application discloses an image fusion system and method for endoscope three-dimensional navigation. The system comprises a graphic workstation, an optical positioning marker, an optical positioning system and an endoscope system, wherein the graphic workstation is used for importing pre-examination three-dimensional images, reconstructing and post-processing, extracting image point cloud data and optical point cloud data of a lesion and surrounding tissue structure, matching the image point cloud data and the optical point cloud data based on a point cloud registration algorithm, calculating a space transformation from a coordinate system of the optical positioning system to a coordinate system of the pre-examination three-dimensional images; calculating a space transformation from an endoscope visual angle coordinate system to the coordinate system of the pre-examination three-dimensional images; based on a real-time space position of the endoscope, real-time displaying a current field of view corresponding to a three-dimensional image of an endoscope image, and superimposedly and fusionally displaying the endoscope image. By using the application, the endoscope visual field two-dimensional image is combined with the pre-examination three-dimensional image, so that abundant image information is provided for doctors to perform endoscope examination and is used for auxiliary diagnosis.

To provide surgical instruments, including improved endoscopes. [Solution] This disclosure relates to an instrument and method for performing an endoscopic examination. An endoscope for generating images of surgical procedures in vivo may include a hub and an imaging rod extending from the hub, the imaging rod being configured to receive light and to direct the light to an imaging sensor located adjacent to the distal end of the imaging rod, and the hub and imaging rod are mounted to form an assembly having a center of gravity established distal to the hub. In other implementations, the hub may be omitted.

1. The name of the design product: disposable visual nasogastric tube handle. 2. The use of the design product: suitable for endoscopy handle. 3. The design points of the design product: in shape. 4. The picture or photo that best indicates the design points: perspective view.

The utility model relates to the technical field of IV-type hydrogen storage cylinder inner container detection, in particular to an IV-type hydrogen storage cylinder inner container weld endoscopic and ultrasonic defect inspection machine which comprises a complete machine frame, a tailstock jacking assembly, a defect inspection assembly and a weld endoscopic assembly. The tailstock jacking assembly comprises a conical jacking block which can move in the horizontal direction and can rotate, the welding seam endoscopic assembly comprises an endoscope which can move in the horizontal direction, a servo rotary table which can rotate and a servo rotary table rotation driving device, the conical jacking block and the servo rotary table are concentric, and the conical jacking block and the servo rotary table clamp the two ends of an inner container correspondingly; the defect inspection assembly comprises an ultrasonic probe set which can move in the horizontal direction and is used for conducting ultrasonic inspection from the outside of the inner container, and an endoscope penetrates through the center of the servo rotary table to enter the inner container to conduct endoscopic inspection. According to the IV-type hydrogen storage cylinder liner weld endoscopic and ultrasonic defect inspection machine, through an automatic and intelligent detection means, the detection efficiency and accuracy are improved, and the influence of human factors on the detection result is reduced.

The endoscopic examination assistance device includes: an examination status information acquisition unit, which acquires examination status information representing the examination status of an endoscopic examination of a subject using an endoscope, based on an endoscopic image obtained by the endoscope taken inside the subject and insertion shape information representing the insertion shape of the insertion part of the endoscope inserted into the subject; an examination assistance information generation unit, which generates operation assistance information to assist the insertion operation of the insertion part performed by a user operating the endoscope during the endoscopic examination, based on the examination status information acquired by the examination status information acquisition unit; and a surgical operation evaluation unit, which evaluates the surgical operation, including the insertion operation of the insertion part performed by the user during the endoscopic examination, based on the examination status information acquired by the examination status information acquisition unit, thereby generating surgical operation evaluation information.

Techniques for calibrating an optical sensor system of a composition identification system are provided. In an example, a method can include receiving light at an optical sensor of the optical sensor system from a reference target, determining a first spectral response of the light across a range of wavelengths, determining whether a first spectral intensity corresponding to a first wavelength of the spectral response violates a first threshold, adjust an exposure duration or gain of the optical sensor for the first wavelength to correct the violation, and repeat for multiple wavelengths in the range. Once calibrated, the optical system can more efficiently identify composition of targets, such as anatomical targets encountered during medical procedures such as during endoscopy, laparoscopy, or ureteroscopy procedures, especially when such targets are illuminated with a wide spectrum illumination source.

The method for performing endoscopic examination according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include the steps of obtaining an endoscopic image and a 3D model of a target organ; identifying location information of an endoscope on the 3D model in real time based on simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM); classifying a plurality of areas constituting the 3D model into examination areas and unexamined areas by using the endoscopic image and the location information; and providing feedback information based on the examination areas and unexamined areas.

1. The name of the design product: endoscope cable connector. 2. The use of the design product: the product is suitable for endoscopy or surgery, used for electrical connection of endoscope camera host. 3. The design points of the design product: in shape. 4. The picture or photo that best indicates the design points: perspective view.