Computer assisted surgery navigation multi-posture imaging based kinematic spine model

Abstract

A surgical planning system is disclosed which provides computer assisted navigation for spinal surgery. The surgical planning system includes a computer platform operative to obtain images of at least two different postures of a patient's spine, and to measure displacement of anatomical features of the patient's spine between the images of the at least two different postures of the patient's spine. The computer platform is further operative to estimate stiffness of the patient's spine based on the measurements of displacement, and to generate a patient-specific kinematic model of the patient's spine based on the estimated stiffness, and provides a surgical plan based on the patient-specific kinematic model of the patient's spine.

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