Method of graphically tagging and recalling identified structures under visualization for robotic surgery
AssigneeAsensus Surgical US, Inc.
InventorsKevin Andrew Hufford, David J. Meagher
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Abstract
A system and method for augmenting an endoscopic display during a medical procedure including capturing a real-time image of a working space within a body cavity during a medical procedure. A feature of interest in the image is identified to the system using a user input handle of a surgical robotic system, and a graphical tag is displayed on the image marking the feature.
Claims10
A method of tagging regions of interest on displayed images during a medical procedure, comprising:
- positioning an endoscope in a body cavity;
- positioning a surgical instrument in the body cavity;
- mounting the surgical instrument to a first robotic manipulator arm;
- causing the first robotic manipulator arm to manipulate the surgical instrument within the body cavity in in response to user manipulation of a user input device;
- capturing images of a surgical site within the body cavity and displaying the images on a display, the displayed images including images of the surgical instrument,
- entering a tag selection mode comprising:
- displaying a graphical pointer as an overlay on the display;
- in response to user manipulation of the user input, positioning the graphical pointer at a region of interest on images of the surgical site displayed on the display;
- in response to user selection input, displaying a graphical tag at the location of the graphical pointer on the images displayed on the display.
The method of 5, wherein the method includes receiving the selection input from at least one of a microphone, a button, food pedal, joystick, stylus, touch input, or eye tracker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.