Local navigation aids to assist endoscopists finding lost polyps
AssigneeVerily Life Sciences LLC
InventorsNatalia Aizenberg, Ori Kelner, Yuan Zheng, Roman Goldenberg, Ron Amit
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Abstract
A user-interface for visualizing a colonoscopy procedure includes a video region, a polyp annotation and identification graphic, and a lost polyp navigational aid. A live video feed received from a colonoscope is displayed in the video region. The polyp annotation depicts a location of a polyp within a colon and is presented on the live video feed. When the polyp is lost from the field of view (e.g., as a result of surgical tool insertion), the lost polyp navigation aid displays directions and/or signals to guide the endoscopist back to the lost polyp.
Claims20
At least one machine-accessible storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by a machine, will cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- generating a colonoscopy user-interface for display on a screen,
- outputting a live video feed received from a colonoscope for display within a video region of the colonoscopy user-interface;
- annotating a polyp on the live video feed within the video region to visually indicate a location of the polyp with an annotation of the polyp;
- tracking a directional movement of the colonoscope after annotating the polyp;
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- after the polyp is no longer visible on the live video feed within the video region, generating a lost polyp navigation aid for display within the colonoscopy user-interface to guide the colonoscope back to the polyp, wherein the lost polyp navigation aid indicates a guide direction to retrace the directional movement of the colonoscope based upon tracking the directional movement.
At least one machine-accessible storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by a machine, will cause the machine to output a signal for rendering a user-interface to a display, the user-interface adapted for visualizing an endoscopy procedure, the user-interface comprising:
- a video region in which a live video feed received from an endoscope is displayed;
- an annotation of a polyp on the live video feed within the video region to visually indicate a presence of the polyp;
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- a lost polyp navigation aid within the colonoscopy user-interface to guide the colonoscope back to the polyp after the polyp is no longer visible on the live video feed within the video region,
- wherein the lost polyp navigation aid indicates a guide direction to retrace a directional movement of the colonoscope occurring since the polyp was last visible on the live video feed within the video region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.