Automated Surgical Planning System for Patient-Specific Path Generation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Manual surgical planning and execution in medical procedures are complex, error-prone, and burdensome for medical professionals, leading to potential inaccuracies and inconsistencies due to the need for continuous adjustments and monitoring of multiple tools and patient conditions.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing processors and sensing devices to automatically devise a surgical plan by identifying patients and medical devices through image analysis, creating patient and environment models, and generating movement paths for medical devices, thereby automating surgical planning and execution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual surgical planning and execution is used, then medical staff can directly control and adjust procedures, but the burden on medical professionals increases and accuracy decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service automation where the surgical system automatically plans and executes procedures based on pre-programmed protocols and real-time sensor data, reducing the manual burden on medical staff while maintaining or improving surgical accuracy through consistent automated execution
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical control with automated computer-based control systems that use sensors, processors, and actuators to execute surgical tasks, substituting human physical manipulation with automated mechanical systems that provide more precise and consistent control
2Reliability
If manual surgical planning is used, then flexibility in adapting to patient conditions is maintained, but consistency and reliability of results decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The automated surgical system incorporates multi-functional capabilities including patient positioning, surgical tool control, real-time monitoring, and adaptive planning within a single integrated platform, providing consistent and reliable results across different surgical procedures and patient conditions without requiring multiple separate complex systems
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically adjusts surgical parameters such as tool positions, movement speeds, and surgical paths based on real-time sensor feedback and pre-programmed protocols, ensuring consistent and reliable surgical outcomes by eliminating manual parameter variations while maintaining adaptability to different patient anatomies and surgical requirements
3Productivity
If automated surgical planning is implemented, then the burden on medical staff is reduced and accuracy is enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The automated surgical system is divided into modular functional segments including patient positioning subsystems, surgical tool control subsystems, real-time monitoring subsystems, and automated planning subsystems. Each module performs a specific function and can be independently controlled or replaced, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high productivity and accuracy through coordinated operation of these segmented components
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AI summary
Systems, methods and instrumentalities are described herein for automatically devising and executing a surgical plan associated with a patient in a medical environment, e.g., under the supervision of a medical professional. The surgical plan may be devised based on images of the medical environment captured by one or more sensing devices. A processing device may determine, based on all or a first subset of the images, a patient model that may indicate a location and a shape of an anatomical structure of the patient and determine, based on all or a second subset of the images, an environment model that may indicate a three-dimensional (3D) spatial layout of the medical environment. The surgical plan may be devised based on the patient model and the environment model, and may indicate at least a movement path of a medical device towards the anatomical structure of the patient.