201 results about "Endoamnioscopy" patented technology

This specification describes systems and methods for performing endoscopy, obtaining medical images for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and scoring severity of IBD in patients. The methods and systems are configured for using machine learning to determine measurements of various characteristics related to IBD. The methods and systems may also obtain and incorporate electronic health data of patients along with endoscopic data to use for scoring purposes.

The invention discloses a tumor image segmentation method and system of a multi-scale feature fusion network based on boundary enhancement, and relates to the technical field of image segmentation, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a to-be-segmented tumor image; constructing a tumor image segmentation model based on a pyramid visual converter PVTv2 backbone network; training the tumor image segmentation model through the to-be-segmented tumor image and the known tumor image to obtain an optimal tumor image segmentation model; and acquiring a real-time to-be-segmented tumor image and inputting the real-time to-be-segmented tumor image into the optimal tumor image segmentation model to obtain a tumor image segmentation result. Aiming at the endoscope image segmentation of the kidney tumor, the kidney tumor in the endoscope image is efficiently, stably and automatically segmented through the boundary-enhanced multi-scale feature fusion network, clinical doctors are helped to provide accurate tumor area positioning in endoscopy and surgical operations, and compared with the most advanced method, the method has the advantages that the accuracy is high, and the efficiency is high. According to the method, better segmentation capability and stronger generalization capability are obtained.

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.

In an endoscopy support device, a display control means superimposes and displays a lesion guide for specifying a lesion in an endoscopic image. An acquisition means acquires the endoscopic image. An analysis means segments a lesion region from the endoscopic image based on the endoscopic image and the lesion guide. An output means outputs the lesion region segmented. The endoscopy support device can support decision making by a user in the field of healthcare.

The invention relates to the technical field of medical instruments, in particular to a plastic auxiliary ventilation mask for endoscopy, which comprises a mask body, a T-shaped support is fixedly connected to the mask body, a first elastic bandage is arranged on the T-shaped support, and a first fixing ring and a second fixing ring are symmetrically and fixedly connected to the side wall of the mask body respectively; a second elastic bandage is arranged on the mask, one end of the second elastic bandage is fixedly connected with the first fixing ring, and the other end of the second elastic bandage penetrates through the second fixing ring and is detachably connected with the second fixing ring; the edge of the mask is provided with a shaping assembly used for automatically fitting the face of a patient when the mask is worn. A driving assembly is arranged in the second fixing ring; an air hole is formed in the mask, a catheter used for being inserted into an endoscope is arranged on the air hole, and a universal assembly is arranged in the air hole; a sealing assembly used for automatically opening and closing a channel in the catheter when the mask is used is arranged in the catheter. The auxiliary ventilation mask can be automatically attached to the face of a patient, and the problem that the attaching degree is poor is effectively solved.

A 3-dimensional tracking and navigation simulator system for image guided neuro-endoscopy, said system comprising: a fiducial based physical model of an anatomic region associated with neuro-endoscopy, wherein the physical model is mapped with CT / MRI slices of the anatomy; a virtual model of the anatomic region associated with neuro-endoscopy; at least one surgical instrument operable to perform neuro-endoscopy, said at least one surgical instrument is associated with a 3-D tracking component; a camera unit for tracking a location of the at least one surgical instrument with the 3-D tracking component, relative to a reference unit of the physical model; one or more displays for displaying the location of the at least one surgical instrument in the CT / MRI slices and endoscopic output, a computer work-station operably coupled to the physical model, and the camera unit, said work-station comprising: a localization and tracking module having configured to track the tasks performed by a user with the at least one surgical instrument, and estimate the position and rotation of the at least one surgical instrument in 6 degrees of freedom; a virtual space mapping module configured to map a location to a corresponding anatomic position in the virtual model to give a navigation of the surgical instrument in the virtual model; an evaluation module configured to evaluate the 3D tracking of tasks performed based on a localization metric and a 3D tracking metric, and provide feedback to the user based on the performance using machine learning and AI based algorithms.

According to the borborygmus recognition method and device, the electronic equipment and the storage medium, the borborygmus signal is acquired, the signal is recognized based on the preset borborygmus recognition model, the borborygmus characteristics can be efficiently and accurately analyzed, and therefore a scientific basis is provided for evaluation of the activity range and the lesion range of colitis diseases. According to the method, the diagnostic efficiency and accuracy are improved, through non-invasive borborygmus signal analysis, complexity of traditional endoscopy and discomfort of a patient are avoided, and meanwhile the diagnostic accuracy is improved; and secondly, dynamic monitoring of disease activity is realized, the activity and lesion range of colitis can be evaluated in real time by continuously collecting and identifying borborygmus signals, and dynamic illness state data support is provided for doctors.

An endoscopy system that includes a computer system with a high definition display monitor and a handheld portion. The handheld portion includes a re-usable handle portion and a single use portion that is configured to be disposed of following a single use. The single-use portion includes a substantially straight elongated cannula with an imaging module and illumination modules at its distal tip. The imaging module is mounted such that its direction of view (DOV) is at an oblique angle from the main longitudinal axis of the cannula.

Systems and methods of tracking the position of an endoscope within a patient's body during an endoscopic procedure is disclosed. The devices and methods include determining a position of the endoscope within the patient in the endoscope's coordinate system, capturing in an image fiducial markers attached to the endoscope by an external optical tracker, transforming the captured fiducial markers from the endoscope's coordinate system to the optical tracker's coordinate system, projecting a virtual image of the endoscope on a model of the patient's organ, and projecting or displaying the combined image.

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.

A medical alert system that provides alerts based on predictions of various potential risks to a patient, a physician, and / or medical staff for endoscopy procedures. The medical alert system includes a communication interface, memory, and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to receive, at the communication interface of the medical alert system, a request for a risk prediction for a future endoscopic procedure, where the request includes procedural information related to at least one of historical endoscopic procedure information or proposed endoscopic procedural information for the future endoscopic procedure. In response, the system outputs, via the communication interface, a risk prediction alert associated with performance of the future endoscopic procedure. The alert is based on predicted risks for one or more risks to a patient, a physician, and / or staff based on at least one of biographical information or the proposed endoscopic procedural information.

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.

Systems and methods are disclosed for an endoscope for use in a surgical procedure, e.g., a pediatric trans-nasal endoscopy procedure. The endoscope may include a handle for gripping by a user, and a shaft extending from the handle. The shaft may have a working channel extending longitudinally therethrough. The shaft may include an outer jacket defining an outer surface of the shaft, and an inner channel defining a working channel extending longitudinally through the shaft. The shaft defines an open space between the outer jacket and the inner channel, with an electrical wire for an illumination and / or a camera device extending longitudinally within the open space. The open space may improve the flexibility of the shaft along its entire length thereby improving patient comfort, and may also enable the steering wires to be positioned for improved up / down and left / right movement relative to the steering inputs provided by the user.

Provided is an endoscope enabling efficient treatment. This endoscope (100) is characterized by comprising: a distal end surface (120) that has a treatment tool hole through which a first treatment tool can be inserted, and an observation part; a distal end part (110) that has a curved part that supports the distal end surface in a freely bendable manner; and an opening part (130), which is provided on a side surface (110a) of the distal end part, and is capable of absorbing water, and through which a second treatment tool can be inserted.

An endoscopic examination assistance device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire an endoscopic image captured by an imaging unit of an endoscope and imaging unit position information indicating a position of the imaging unit of the endoscope within a lumen at a time when the endoscopic image is captured; detect a lesion from the endoscopic image; determine whether it is an insertion step for inserting the endoscope to a turnaround point in the lumen or a removal step for removing the endoscope from a turnaround point in the lumen; and cause a notification device to give notification according to a positional relationship between the imaging unit position information and lesion position information indicating a position of a lesion, in a case where a result of the determination indicates the removal step.

Provided are a medical assistance device, a medical assistance method, and a program that allow the temporal relationship between continuous information and discrete information to be identified. The medical assistance device comprises a processor. The processor: acquires examination data including at least one of endoscopic examination and treatment, the examination data including continuous information of one or more continuous states continuous in time on the same time axis from the start to the end of examination, and one or more pieces of discrete information on the same time axis; generates, on the basis of the examination data, chart information including the time axis from the start to the end of examination, continuous region information, and discrete region information, the continuous region information indicating a change in the continuous state of examination on the same time axis in a manner indicating continuity from the examination start time to a change start time and from the change start time to a change end time or a next change start time, and the discrete region information indicating the time of generation of the discrete information; and outputs the chart information.

The invention relates to a method for analysing images of biological tissues acquired by endoscopy, using a light-generating device associated with an endoscope with a camera.

An endoscopy support apparatus 1 includes: an analysis information generation unit 2 that inputs image information of an imaged living body into a model, estimates a region of a target site of the living body, and generates analysis information including region information indicating the estimated region and score information indicating likeness of the region to the target site; a user information generation unit 3 that generates user information related to the user, which has been input by a user using a user interface 23; an image-related information generation unit 4 that generates image-related information by associating imaging date and time information, the analysis information, and the user information, for each piece of image information; and an examination management information generation unit 5 that generates examination management information by associating a plurality of pieces of the image-related information with examination information indicating an examination period.

The invention relates to the technical field of endoscopes, in particular to a high-temperature endoscopy device which comprises a shell, a supporting plate, a folding and unfolding driving assembly, a turbine, a rotary driving assembly, an inner gear ring and a transmission assembly. A conical cavity is formed in the shell, an air inlet A and an exhaust pipe which are communicated with the conical cavity are arranged on the shell, a dust collection cover is arranged on the shell, a dust collection pipe communicated with the exhaust pipe is arranged on the dust collection cover, and a detection assembly is arranged on the shell; the supporting plates are arranged on the shell in an annular array around the axis of the shell, and supporting wheels are arranged on the supporting plates; the folding and unfolding driving assembly drives the supporting plates to synchronously get away from or get close to each other. The turbine is arranged in the conical cavity; the rotation driving assembly is arranged on the shell and drives the turbine to rotate at a high speed. The inner gear ring is rotationally arranged on the shell and elastically connected with the brush plate. The transmission assembly is in transmission connection with the turbine and the inner gear ring. The pipeline cleaning device can adaptively change according to the change of the inner diameter of a pipeline, is convenient to take and place, and has the function of cleaning the interior of the pipeline.

A swallowable capsule has a main magnet along a long axis that is aligned between movable electromagnets in a magnetic endoscopy machine. The flipping magnet is orthogonal to the long axis. The capsule rolls around the long axis to flip the orientation of the side camera on the side of the capsule. An external basic electromagnet under the foot of the patient is energized to roll the capsule. When the long axis is orthogonal to the magnetic axis of the basic magnet, the basic magnet acts on the overturning magnet but does not act on the orthogonal main magnet. Most components, such as controllers, side cameras, side lasers, batteries, and antennas, are mounted to a long printed circuit board (PCB) along a long axis, while front cameras and lasers are mounted to a front PCB mounted orthogonally to a front edge of the long PCB.

Provided is a medical support device including a processor. The processor is configured to specify a papilla type, which is a type of a duodenal papilla, by executing image recognition processing on an intestinal wall image obtained by imaging an intestinal wall including the duodenal papilla in a duodenum with a camera provided in an endoscope scope; and output related information related to the papilla type.

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 present application relates to an endoscope auxiliary examination system, a method, an apparatus, and a storage medium. The system comprises: an anatomical part identification module, used to perform frame-by-frame identification on collected endoscope examination images, determine every observation point part corresponding to each frame of the endoscope examination images, and map each observation point part to a preset site part; an attention recording module, used to determine a site part observation sequence according to a recorded observation time of each observation point part and an observation completeness of each site part determined by the anatomical part identification module; and a guidance module, used to determine a target site to be moved to, according to a current site part corresponding to a current frame endoscope examination image determined by the anatomical part identification module, the site part observation sequence and a preset physical depth of the current site part, and guiding endoscopic examination according to the current site part and the target site. According to the present application, an endoscopist is guided to operate an endoscope according to the most efficient route.

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.

A magnetic handpiece for an endoscopic guide is for application in colonoscopy. A magnetic handpiece system includes the magnetic handpiece and a casing. The magnetic handpiece includes a magnetic field source having one or more permanent magnets, and a hollow body having a longitudinal axis, a first end and a second end. A movable support element of the magnetic source is movably accommodated in the hollow body through a screw coupling. The movable support element is movable along the axis between a raised, or non-operating, position and lowered operating positions.

An assembly for performing intranasal endoscopy on a patient includes a mouth gag defining a central cavity, where the mouth gag is configured to be at least partly received in an oral cavity of the patient, and an outer cannula defining a central lumen, where the outer cannula is configured to be introduced through the central cavity of the mouth gag. The assembly also includes an endoscope extending through the central lumen of the outer cannula and configured to be advanced into a nasal cavity of the patient.

The plastic auxiliary ventilation mask comprises a mask body, a sealing assembly is arranged in the mask body, the sealing assembly comprises an air guide cover arranged in the mask body, and a first connecting port and a second connecting port are formed in the top end of the air guide cover; the first connector and the second connector are symmetrical relative to the central axis of the mask body and are equal in inner diameter and height; the sealing assembly can seal gaps among the nasal cavity of a patient, the endoscope body and the oxygen pipe when the patient is subjected to endoscopy, meanwhile, the mask body is arranged to be open, water column condensation possibly caused by exhaled air of the patient is directly avoided, and when the mask body is used, the mask body is not prone to falling off. The mask body is fixed to the face of a patient through the elastic pull rope and the like, the two elastic rings arranged at the free end of the rotating plate in a penetrating mode cover the outer side of the oxygen pipe and the outer side of the endoscope body respectively, sealing is completed after the state of the sealing assembly is locked, and endoscopy is started.

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.