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US 10,327,801 B2Granted
Systems and methods for creating hair transplantation procedure sites
AssigneeRestoration Robotics, Inc.
InventorsGabriele Zingaretti, Ognjen Petrovic
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Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for determining the location of procedure sites, for example hair implantation sites, the method and systems enabling a natural looking randomness to be maintained to achieve a desired density while avoiding previously created procedure sites and existing features.
Claims18
A method for automatically selecting a location of a procedure site on a patient, the method comprising:
- proposing a candidate procedure site on a patient;
- identifying a follicular unit that exists within a certain distance from the candidate procedure site;
- automatically determining, using image processing, if the existing follicular unit is terminal or non-terminal;
- and
- selecting from available options of:
- 1) if the existing follicular unit is determined to be non-terminal, proceeding with procedure site making at the proposed candidate procedure site;
- and
- 2) if the existing follicular unit is determined to be terminal, proposing another candidate procedure site such that the candidate procedure site is not too close to the existing follicular unit.
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A method of selecting a location of a procedure site, the method comprising:
- proposing a candidate procedure site on a patient;
- identifying a follicular unit that exists within a certain distance from the candidate procedure site;
- automatically classifying, using image processing, the existing follicular unit as terminal or non-terminal;
- and
- selecting from available options of:
- 1) if the existing follicular unit is classified as non-terminal, proceeding with procedure site making at the proposed candidate procedure site;
- and
- 2) if the existing follicular unit is classified as terminal, proposing another candidate procedure site such that the candidate procedure site is not too close to the existing follicular unit.
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A system for selecting a location of a procedure site, the system comprising:
- a user interface including a user input device;
- at least one non-transitory storage medium storing instructions, and
- one or more modules for executing operations on image data, the one or more modules comprising instructions for:
- proposing a candidate procedure site on a patient;
- identifying a follicular unit that exists within a certain distance from the candidate procedure site;
- automatically determining, using image processing, if the existing follicular unit is terminal or non-terminal;
- and
- selecting from available options of:
- 1) if the existing follicular unit is determined to be non-terminal, proceeding with procedure site making at the proposed candidate procedure site;
- and
- 2) if the existing follicular unit is determined to be terminal, proposing another candidate procedure site such that the candidate procedure site is not too close to the existing follicular unit.
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