Augmented surgical reality environment

A method for generating an augmented image of a region of interest during a surgical procedure, the method comprising:

• capturing at least one image of the region of interest using an image capture device;
• decomposing the at least one image to generate a plurality of spatial frequency bands;
• applying a temporal filter to the plurality of spatial frequency bands to generate a plurality of temporally filtered bands;
• adding each band in the plurality of spatial frequency bands to a corresponding band in the plurality of temporally filtered bands to generate a plurality of augmented bands;
• collapsing the plurality of augmented bands to generate the augmented image;
• and
• displaying the augmented image on a display.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:

• decompose image data including an imperceptible property of an object;
• generate a plurality of spatial frequency bands from the decomposed image data;
• temporally filter the plurality of spatial frequency bands;
• generate a plurality of temporally filtered bands;
• add each of the spatial frequency bands to a corresponding band of the temporally filtered bands;
• collapse the added bands;
• generate an augmented image with improved perceptibility of the imperceptible property from the collapsing of the added bands;
• and
• output the augmented image.