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US 12,678,229 B2Granted
Systems and method of planning thoracic surgery
AssigneeCovidien LP
InventorsEvgeni Kopel, Gabriella Goranov, Oren P. Weingarten, Ariel Birenbaum, Ofer Barasofsky
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Abstract
Systems and method of planning thoracic surgery. A three-dimensional model is generated to provide greater clarity between lung segments as well as identifying the airways and vasculature supporting the lung segment to enable accurate surgical planning.
Claims18
A method of planning a thoracic surgery comprising:
- receiving computed tomography (CT) image data;
- receiving an indication of a location of a suspected tumor in the CT image data;
- generate a three-dimensional model (3D) from the CT image data;
- display the 3D model in a user interface;
- receiving an input via the user interface of selection of a generation level of the 3D model;
- removing from the displayed 3D model in a user interface the generations beyond the selected generation level;
- receiving a selection of a crop tool to crop the 3D model to a region around a suspected tumor in the 3D model;
- presenting the region of the 3D model around the suspected tumor;
- receiving a change in dimensions of the region of the 3D model around the suspected tumor;
- identifying all airways and blood vessels of the 3D model entering the changed region and all preceding airways and blood vessels directly connected to the airways and blood vessels in the 3D model to form identified airways and blood vessels;
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- removing from the 3D model all airways and blood vessels other than the identified airways and blood vessels.
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A method of planning a thoracic surgery comprising:
- receiving computed tomography (CT) image data;
- generating a three-dimensional model (3D) from the CT image data;
- displaying the 3D model;
- receiving an input selecting a generation level of the 3D model and removing generations from the 3D model beyond the selected generation level;
- removing from the displayed 3D model the generations beyond the selected generation level;
- receiving a selection of a crop tool to crop the 3D model to a region around a suspected tumor in the 3D model;
- presenting the region of the 3D model around the suspected tumor;
- identifying all airways and blood vessels of the 3D model entering the region and all preceding airways and blood vessels directly connected to the airways and blood vessels entering the region in the 3D model;
- removing from the 3D model all airways and blood vessels other than the identified airways and blood vessels;
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- displaying the 3D model in a user interface, wherein the 3D model includes only the identified airways and blood vessels.
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A thoracic surgery planning system comprising:
- a processor;
- a display in communication with the processor;
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- a memory in communication with the processor, wherein the memory stores therein executable code that when executed by the processor generate a user interface (UI) for display on the display, the user interface including,
- a three-dimensional (3D) model of airways and vasculature of a patient's lungs;
- at least one generation tool configured to limit a number of generations of the 3D model displayed, wherein upon receipt of an input via the user interface of a generation level removes from the displayed 3D model in a user interface generations of the 3D model beyond a selected generation level;
- a margin tool configured to adjust a displayed margin around a suspected tumor;
- a plurality of orientation manipulation tools configured to alter a view of the 3D model presented in the UI;
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- a crop tool, which when selected, crops the 3D model presented in the UI to a region around the suspected tumor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.