Image Guidance System Voice Control for Surgical Procedures
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current image-guided surgery systems have inadequate image management, requiring surgeons to suspend other activities to manipulate mouse-and-monitor interfaces, leading to reduced procedural fluidity and lack of control and flexibility in viewing CT scans and other medical data, with unintuitive interfaces obscuring areas of interest.
Innovation Solution
The system determines pose information for 3D visualizable medical data and medical devices, generates image guidance information based on real-time data, and displays a graphical rendering to allow intuitive manipulation and focus on regions of interest, enabling surgeons to view and interact with medical data more effectively.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If surgeons use mouse-and-monitor interfaces to manipulate medical images, then image viewing capability is provided, but procedural fluidity is reduced and time is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical mouse-and-monitor interface with a voice-activated control system. Surgeons can manipulate medical images, adjust views, and navigate through data using voice commands, eliminating the need to physically reach for and operate a mouse during the procedure. This substitution maintains full image manipulation capability while preserving procedural fluidity and reducing time loss.
2Loss of information
If comprehensive medical data is displayed, then information completeness is improved, but areas of interest are obscured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic image display that automatically adjusts based on the surgical context and surgeon's needs. The system dynamically prioritizes and highlights areas of interest while maintaining contextual information in the background. This dynamic adjustment ensures that critical anatomical structures and targets remain clearly visible while comprehensive medical data remains accessible but does not obscure the primary focus areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different display qualities and emphasis levels to different regions of the medical data. Areas of interest receive enhanced visualization with higher contrast, sharper detail, and prominent positioning, while less critical information is displayed with reduced emphasis. This local quality differentiation ensures that important structures are easily detectable while maintaining overall data completeness.
3Device complexity
If traditional interfaces are used for image guidance, then system simplicity is maintained, but control and flexibility are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal control system that integrates multiple functions into a single voice-activated interface. The system can perform diverse operations including image navigation, magnification, rotation, data overlay adjustment, and procedural documentation using the same voice command mechanism. This multi-functional approach provides extensive viewing control flexibility while maintaining interface simplicity, as all controls are accessed through a unified voice command system rather than multiple separate interfaces.
Data Source
AI summary
Presented herein are methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for image management in image-guided medical procedures. Some embodiments herein allow a physician to use multiple instruments for a surgery and simultaneously provide image-guidance data for those instruments. Various embodiments disclosed herein provide information to physicians about procedures they are performing, the devices (such as ablation needles, ultrasound transducers or probes, scalpels, cauterizers, etc.) they are using during the procedure, the relative emplacements or poses of these devices, prediction information for those devices, and other information. Some embodiments provide useful information about 3D data sets and allow the operator to control the presentation of regions of interest. Additionally, some embodiments provide for quick calibration of surgical instruments or attachments for surgical instruments.