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US 11,998,220 B2Granted
Systems and devices for endoscopic procedure analysis
AssigneeKunnskap Medical, LLC
InventorMichael C. Holmstrom
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Abstract
Endoscopic image analysis, endoscopic procedure analysis, and/or component control systems, methods and techniques are disclosed that can analyze images of an endoscopic system and/or affect an endoscopic system to enhance operation, user and patient experience, and usability of image data and other case data.
Claims20
An endoscopic procedure analysis system comprising:
- a data capture engine to capture endoscopic case data at intervals during an endoscopic case, the endoscopic case data including state data for one or more components of the endoscopic system, the state data captured by the data capture engine from a control engine at one or more intervals during the endoscopic case and image analysis data generated from analysis of one or more images by an image analysis engine, the one or more images from image data captured by a camera of a view provided by an endoscope of an endoscopic system during the endoscopic case, the analysis including identification of one or more characteristics of the one or more images;
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- an endoscopic procedure analysis engine to:
- access a set of data from stored endoscopic case data captured by the data capture engine for one or more endoscopic procedures, wherein the set of data includes the state data and the image analysis data;
- analyze the set of data, comprising analyzing a combination of the state data and the image analysis data:
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- generate additional data based on the analysis of the set of data,
- wherein generating the additional data comprises generating additional data regarding timing of the endoscopic case by:
- determining a start time by analyzing the image analysis data to determine a first transition based at least in part on a first image having a first characteristic to a second image having a second characteristic;
- determining an end time by analyzing the image analysis data to determine a transition from a third image having the second characteristic to a fourth image having a different characteristic, wherein the second characteristic corresponds to when the endoscope was in a body of the patient;
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- determining a duration from the start time and the end time,
- wherein generating the additional data comprises generating additional data regarding average pump pressure in the endoscopic case by:
- identifying in-body images from the image data having the second characteristic corresponding to when the endoscope was in the body of the patient;
- determining a pressure of the pump at times corresponding to the in-body images;
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- determining an average pressure of the pump during the endoscopic case based on the pressure of the pump at the times corresponding to the in-body images.
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An endoscopic procedure analysis component comprising:
- an image data interface to couple to an endoscopic system to receive endoscopic image data captured by a camera of the endoscopic system during an endoscopic procedure performed utilizing the endoscopic system, the image data of a view provided by an endoscope of the endoscopic system, the endoscope to access an area to be visualized within a patient;
- an image analysis engine to:
- analyze one or more images from the endoscopic image data to identify one or more characteristics of each of the one or more images;
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- generate image analysis data including the one or more characteristics of each of the one or more images;
- a data capture engine to capture endoscopic case data at intervals during the endoscopic procedure, the endoscopic case data including state data for one or more components of the endoscopic system, the state data captured by the data capture engine from a control engine at one or more intervals during the endoscopic case and the image analysis data;
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- an endoscopic procedure analysis engine to:
- access an aggregate of endoscopic case data for one or more endoscopic procedures, wherein the set of data includes the state data and the image analysis data;
- analyze a set of data from the aggregate of endoscopic case data utilizing one or more algorithms that consider characteristics of images in the image analysis data, wherein analyzing the set of data comprises analyzing a combination of the state data and the image analysis data;
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- derive additional data based on the analysis of the set of data,
- wherein deriving the additional data comprises generating additional data regarding timing of the endoscopic case by:
- determining a start time by analyzing the image analysis data to determine a first transition from a first image having a first characteristic to a second image having a second characteristic;
- determining an end time by analyzing the image analysis data to determine a transition from a third image having the second characteristic to a fourth image having a different characteristic, wherein the second characteristic corresponds to when the endoscope was in a body of the patient;
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- determining a duration from the start time and the end time,
- wherein generating the additional data comprises generating additional data regarding average pump pressure in the endoscopic case by:
- identifying in-body images from the image data having the second characteristic corresponding to when the endoscope was in the body of the patient;
- determining a pressure of the pump at times corresponding to the in-body images;
- and
- determining an average pressure of the pump during the endoscopic case based on the pressure of the pump at the times corresponding to the in-body images.
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