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US 8,897,523 B2Granted
System and method for counting surgical samples
AssigneeGauss Surgical, Inc.
InventorsSiddarth Satish, Kevin Miller, Ali Zandifar, Andrew Hosford
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Abstract
One method for counting surgical samples comprises: identifying a physical sample in a field of view of an optical sensor; indexing a sample counter for the identified physical sample; extracting a feature from a portion of the field of the view of the optical sensor; and estimating the extracorporeal blood volume in a portion of the physical sample based upon the extracted feature.
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A method for counting surgical samples comprising:
- identifying a surgical textile in a field of view of an optical sensor;
- indexing a sample counter for the identified surgical textile;
- extracting a feature from a portion of the field of the view of the optical sensor;
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- estimating the extracorporeal blood volume in a portion of the surgical textile based upon the extracted feature.
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A system for counting surgical samples comprising:
- an optical sensor that captures an image of a surgical textile;
- a processor that identifies the surgical textile in the image, indexes a sample counter for the identified surgical textile, extracts a feature from a portion of the image, estimates the extracorporeal blood volume in a portion of the surgical textile based upon the extracted feature;
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- a display that depicts the sample counter and the estimated blood volume in at least the portion of the surgical textile.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.