Medical Software Platform for Enhanced Tissue Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Minimally invasive surgeries face challenges due to poor visibility, limited imaging resolution, and restricted perspectives in surgical environments, which hinder the ability to accurately distinguish normal from diseased tissue during procedures.
Innovation Solution
A medical software tools platform is introduced, featuring a surgical display that integrates medical software tools and image stream processing, allowing for enhanced data analysis, real-time collaboration, and dynamic image processing to improve tissue visualization and identification through graphical user interfaces, image enhancement algorithms, and multi-modal image registration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If conventional medical imaging devices are used in minimally invasive surgeries, then the surgical procedure can be performed with smaller incisions, but the imaging resolution and tissue differentiation capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple imaging modalities (optical imaging, ultrasound, and other imaging techniques) into a single integrated medical imaging device. This merging allows the device to overcome the limitations of individual imaging methods and provide both high-resolution imaging and real-time feedback during minimally invasive procedures, resolving the contradiction between small incision size and imaging resolution.
Solution Approach 2:
The imaging device is designed with multi-functional capabilities, incorporating multiple imaging modalities and processing techniques within a single device. This universality enables the device to perform various imaging functions (optical, ultrasound, real-time processing) simultaneously, maintaining high imaging resolution while supporting minimally invasive surgical approaches.
2Device complexity
If conventional imaging devices are used, then device simplicity is maintained, but the ability to provide multiple perspectives and distinguish tissue types deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple imaging modalities and processing capabilities are merged into a single integrated device, providing diverse imaging perspectives (optical, ultrasound, real-time) without requiring multiple separate devices. This merging achieves versatility while managing complexity through integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The device incorporates universal multi-functional capabilities that enable it to adapt to different surgical needs and provide multiple imaging perspectives. The device can switch between and combine different imaging modes (optical imaging, ultrasound, real-time processing) to address various surgical requirements within a single platform.
3Illumination intensity
If conventional imaging devices are used, then lighting constraints are avoided, but the ability to show tissue differences deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges optical imaging capabilities with ultrasound and other non-light-dependent imaging modalities. This combination allows the system to overcome lighting constraints in the surgical field while maintaining high tissue differentiation capability through multiple imaging mechanisms that do not rely solely on visible light.
Solution Approach 2:
The imaging device provides universal functionality that is not limited by lighting conditions. By incorporating multiple imaging modalities (optical, ultrasound, real-time processing), the device can adapt to various lighting environments and maintain tissue differentiation capability regardless of illumination intensity or lighting constraints in the surgical field.
4Productivity
If integrated operating room systems are implemented, then surgical efficiency and collaboration are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple functions (imaging, processing, display, collaboration tools) into a unified system that works seamlessly together. This merging of functions into an integrated operating room system improves surgical efficiency by providing real-time access to multiple imaging modalities and collaboration capabilities while managing complexity through cohesive system design.
Data Source
AI summary
Medical software tools platforms utilize a surgical display to provide access to specific medical software tools, such as medically-oriented applications or widgets, that can assist surgeons or surgical team in performing various procedures. In particular, an endoscopic camera may register the momentary rise in the optical signature reflected from a tissue surface and in turn transmit it to a medical image processing system which can also receive patient heart rate data and display relevant anomalies. Changes in various spectral components and the speed at which they change in relation to a source of stimulus (heartbeat, breathing, light source modulation, etc.) may indicate the arrival of blood, contrast agents or oxygen absorption. Combinations of these may indicate various states of differing disease or margins of tumors, and so forth. Also, changes in temperatures, physical dimensions, pressures, photoacoustic pressures and the rate of change may indicate tissue anomalies in comparison to historic values.