Tracking surgical items with prediction of duplicate imaging of items
AssigneeStryker Corporation
InventorsMayank Kumar, Kevin J. Miller, Siddarth Satish
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method for tracking surgical textiles includes receiving a first image comprising a first textile-depicting image region, receiving a second image comprising a second textile-depicting image region, measuring a likelihood that the first and second image regions depict at least a portion of the same textile, and incrementing an index counter if the measure of likelihood does not meet a predetermined threshold. The measure of likelihood may be based on at least one classification feature at least partially based on aspects or other features of the first and second images.
Claims19
A computer-implemented method for managing surgical textiles, the method comprising:
- receiving, at one or more processors, a first image of a first surgical textile;
- identifying, with the one or more processors, a first fluid pattern on the first surgical textile depicted within the first image;
- quantifying, with the one or more processors, a first fluid component of the first fluid pattern depicted in the first image;
- receiving, at one or more processors, a second image of the first surgical textile or a second surgical textile;
- identifying, with the one or more processors, a second fluid pattern depicted in the second image;
- quantifying, with the one or more processors, a second fluid component of the second fluid pattern depicted in the second image;
- determining, with the one or more processors, a similarity measure between first fluid pattern and the second fluid pattern with an algorithm that calculates the similarity measure based on the first fluid component and the second fluid component;
- determining, with the one or more processors, whether the second image is of the first surgical textile or the second surgical textile by comparing the similarity measure to a predetermined threshold;
- incrementing, with the one or more processors, an index counter if the similarity measure is below the predetermined threshold;
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- displaying, on a display, the index counter.
A computer-implemented method for managing surgical textiles, the method comprising:
- receiving, at one or more processors, a first image of a first surgical textile;
- identifying, with the one or more processors, a first fluid pattern on the first surgical textile depicted within the first image;
- receiving, at one or more processors, a second image of the first surgical textile or a second surgical textile;
- identifying, with the one or more processors, a second fluid pattern depicted in the second image;
- quantifying, with the one or more processors, a first fluid component of the first fluid pattern depicted in the first image;
- quantifying, with the one or more processors, a second fluid component of the second fluid pattern depicted in the second image;
- determining, with the one or more processors, a similarity measure between first fluid pattern and the second fluid pattern with an algorithm that calculated the similarity measure based on the first fluid component and the second fluid component;
- determining, with the one or more processors, whether the second image is of the first surgical textile or the second surgical textile by comparing the similarity measure to a predetermined threshold;
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- displaying, on a display, a notification of potential duplicity if the similarity measure is above the predetermined threshold.
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