Surgical Display Software for Real-Time Tissue Differentiation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional medical imaging devices in minimally invasive surgeries suffer from limited imaging resolution, poor visibility, and restricted viewing angles, making it challenging for surgeons to distinguish between normal and diseased tissue, especially in confined surgical compartments.
Innovation Solution
A medical software tools platform that integrates enhanced data analysis capabilities, including image processing and collaboration features, to improve surgical visibility and tissue differentiation by utilizing a surgical display to present medically-oriented applications and widgets, such as measurement tools, optical signature analysis, and collaborative control interfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Length of moving object
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, 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, thereby maintaining small incisions while improving tissue differentiation capability
Solution Approach 2:
The imaging device is designed with multi-functional capabilities, incorporating various imaging modalities and analysis tools within a single device. This universal design enables the device to perform multiple functions including high-resolution imaging, real-time feedback, and tissue characterization, resolving the contradiction between device size and imaging capability
2Volume of moving object
If conventional medical imaging devices are used, then the device size can be reduced for minimally invasive access, but the viewing angle and visibility deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates real-time feedback mechanisms that provide information in additional dimensions beyond the direct visual field. This includes real-time imaging feedback, tissue characterization data, and navigation information that enhance visibility and ease of operation without requiring larger device size or broader viewing angles
3Productivity
If conventional medical imaging devices are used, then the surgical procedure can proceed, but the ability to distinguish normal from diseased tissue deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements real-time feedback systems that continuously monitor tissue characteristics and provide immediate information to the surgeon. This feedback includes real-time imaging, tissue optical property analysis, and spectral component monitoring, enabling precise tissue differentiation during the surgical procedure without delaying or complicating the overall procedure
Solution Approach 2:
The device monitors changes in tissue parameters such as spectral components, optical properties, and physiological responses to differentiate between normal and diseased tissue. By tracking these parameter changes in real-time, the system achieves high measurement precision for tissue characterization while maintaining surgical efficiency
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.