Medical Video Analysis Platform for Real-Time Tissue Differentiation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional medical imaging devices in minimally invasive surgeries face challenges such as limited imaging resolution, poor visibility, and difficulty in distinguishing between biological tissues due to lighting constraints, which complicates surgical procedures.
Innovation Solution
A medical software tools platform that integrates enhanced data analysis capabilities, including image processing and collaborative control, to improve surgical displays with features like image enhancement, measurement tools, and multi-modal image registration, enabling better tissue differentiation and surgical precision.
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 are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple imaging modalities (optical coherence tomography, fluorescence imaging, and white light imaging) into a single integrated medical imaging device, allowing simultaneous acquisition of high-resolution structural data, molecular information, and broad-field visualization through one device introduced via minimally invasive access
Solution Approach 2:
The imaging device performs multiple functions including structural imaging, molecular imaging, and functional imaging capabilities within a single platform, enabling comprehensive tissue characterization and differentiation without requiring separate imaging devices or larger incisions
2Volume of moving object
If conventional medical imaging devices are used, then the device size can be kept small for minimally invasive access, but the ability to provide multiple perspectives and high resolution imaging is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a nested configuration where multiple imaging subsystems (OCT probe, fluorescence sensor, white light camera) are integrated within a hierarchical structure, with smaller imaging components nested within the main device body, allowing compact form factor while maintaining multi-modal imaging capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The device transitions from two-dimensional surface imaging to three-dimensional volumetric imaging capabilities through optical coherence tomography and multi-planar reconstruction algorithms, providing depth information and cross-sectional views without increasing physical device size
3Illumination intensity
If conventional imaging devices are used under visible lighting constraints, then the surgical procedure can proceed, but the ability to distinguish differences in biological tissue is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes fluorescence imaging that detects specific wavelength emissions from contrast agents bound to target molecules in tissue, providing molecular-level differentiation based on spectral characteristics rather than just visible light reflection, enabling precise tissue characterization under various lighting conditions
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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.