Surgical Video Analysis Platform 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 limited perspectives, making it difficult for surgeons to differentiate between biological tissues and monitor tissue health effectively.
Innovation Solution
A medical software tools platform that utilizes a surgical display to provide access to medically-oriented applications, enhancing image processing and analysis, and enabling collaboration among surgical teams through dynamic routing and processing of image streams, including features like image conversion, measurement, and anomaly detection.
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 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 monitoring capabilities while maintaining the benefits of minimally invasive surgery
Solution Approach 2:
The imaging device is designed with multi-functionality, incorporating various imaging modalities and processing capabilities within a single device. This universal design enables the device to perform multiple functions including high-resolution imaging, real-time monitoring, and data analysis, thereby improving imaging resolution without requiring multiple separate devices or larger incisions
2Ease of operation
If conventional medical imaging devices are used, then the surgical procedure can be performed, but visibility and tissue differentiation are poor
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces real-time image processing and analysis systems as intermediaries between the imaging device and the surgeon. These processing systems enhance the raw imaging data by applying filters, contrast enhancement, and analytical algorithms that improve tissue differentiation and provide additional diagnostic information, thereby reducing information loss while maintaining ease of surgical operation
Solution Approach 2:
The imaging device and processing system dynamically adjust imaging parameters such as contrast, brightness, and processing algorithms in real-time based on the surgical context. These parameter changes optimize the imaging output for different tissue types and surgical conditions, improving visibility and tissue differentiation without complicating the surgical procedure
3Device complexity
If conventional imaging devices are used, then the surgical setup is simpler, but real-time monitoring and collaboration capabilities are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extends the imaging system from a single local display to a multi-dimensional networked system that enables real-time collaboration among multiple surgeons and specialists located in different positions or even different locations. This dimensional expansion allows seamless sharing of imaging data and collaborative decision-making while maintaining a relatively simple local surgical setup through standardized communication interfaces
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.