3D Simulation Platform for Aesthetic Surgery Planning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for 3D anatomical visualization in aesthetics are limited, particularly in pre-visualizing surgical outcomes, leading to potential re-operations and legal issues due to subjective patient assessments, and lack integration with real-time consultation and personalized implant selection.
Innovation Solution
A method generating 3D anatomical outputs and simulations using digital photos or videos, accessible via dedicated servers or the internet, allowing interactive planning and visualization, enabling personalized implant selection and simulation of surgical procedures, with options for online ordering and community interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional 2D image morphing techniques are used for visualization, then the process is simple and quick, but the accuracy and realism of pre-visualization is insufficient leading to subjective patient assessments
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from 2D image morphing to 3D volumetric reconstruction, adding the third dimension to achieve realistic pre-visualization of surgical outcomes. This dimensional change enables accurate simulation of implant placement, projection, and anatomical relationships, resolving the contradiction between visualization accuracy and system complexity by leveraging computational geometry and image processing algorithms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a virtual 3D copy of the patient's anatomy from multiple 2D images, allowing realistic simulation of surgical procedures without physical models. This digital copying approach enables precise pre-visualization of outcomes while avoiding the complexity of physical prototyping and trial implants.
2Adaptability or versatility
If predefined templates and software are used for implant selection, then the process is standardized and quick, but it lacks personalization and cannot meet individual patient expectations
Solution Approach 1:
The system adapts the 3D visualization to the specific patient's anatomy by processing their unique set of images and creating a customized 3D model. This local quality approach allows the standardized 3D framework to be tailored to individual patient characteristics, achieving personalization without requiring entirely new software for each patient.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary 3D reconstruction from patient images during the consultation process, enabling real-time simulation and selection of implants before the procedure. This preliminary action allows thorough discussion and selection within the consultation timeframe, avoiding the need for postoperative adjustments.
3Measurement precision
If hardware-based 3D scanning is used for accurate modeling, then the 3D modeling accuracy is high, but the equipment cost and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces expensive hardware 3D scanning devices with a software-based solution that reconstructs 3D models from standard 2D digital photos. This substitution achieves comparable or superior 3D modeling accuracy while eliminating the need for specialized scanning equipment, thereby reducing device complexity and cost.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of using physical 3D scanning hardware to capture anatomy, the system creates a digital 3D copy by processing multiple 2D images through computational algorithms. This approach achieves high 3D modeling accuracy through mathematical reconstruction rather than physical measurement, avoiding expensive hardware requirements.
4Reliability
If realistic 3D simulations are implemented for pre-visualization, then patient communication and decision-making improve, but the technology complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The 3D visualization system serves multiple functions: it reconstructs patient anatomy, simulates surgical procedures, visualizes implant outcomes, and facilitates patient communication. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require separate tools and processes into a single integrated system, improving reliability while managing complexity through consolidation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables iterative feedback between patient and provider by allowing real-time visualization of proposed changes and outcomes. Patients can see the impact of different implant choices and surgical approaches immediately, facilitating informed decision-making and reducing the likelihood of unsatisfactory results, thereby improving outcome predictability.
Data Source
AI summary
The present teaching is related to the field of aesthetics. It concerns more particularly new methods for the generation of 3D anatomical outputs and 3D simulations of any aesthetic procedure, products obtained by such simulations, uses thereof and the creation of platforms or 3D virtual worlds of connected users and entities forming a virtual community using such methods and creating or ordering accessories and/or products.