Generating a patient-specific orthopaedic surgical plan from medical image data

A system for generating a surgical plan for an orthopaedic surgical procedure from medical image data, the system comprising:

• a computing device of a healthcare facility to generate an orthopaedic surgical plan request corresponding to an orthopaedic surgical procedure to be performed upon bony anatomy of a patient;
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• a surgical plan server of a vendor to (i) receive the orthopaedic surgical plan request from the computing device of the healthcare facility via a network;
• (ii) receive a medical image of the bony anatomy of the patient upon which the orthopaedic surgical procedure is to be performed from the computing device of the healthcare facility;
• (iii) receive constraint data corresponding to the orthopaedic surgical procedure to be performed upon the bony anatomy of the patient from the computing device of the healthcare facility;
• (iv) determine patient-specific anatomical data from the medical image of the bony anatomy of the patient;
• (v) determine whether the patient-specific anatomical data determined is at least one of outside of a reference range or exceeds a reference threshold;
• (vi) determine whether the orthopaedic surgical procedure to be performed upon the bony anatomy of the patient is a difficult orthopaedic surgical procedure based on the received medical image and the received constraint data;
• (vii) generate one of:
• (a) a first surgical plan for the orthopaedic surgical procedure to be performed upon the bony anatomy of the patient in response to determining that the orthopaedic procedure to be performed upon the bony anatomy the patient is not a difficult orthopaedic surgical procedure, or (b) a second surgical plan for the orthopaedic surgical procedure to be performed upon the bony anatomy of the patient in response to determining that the orthopaedic procedure to be performed upon the bony anatomy the patient is a difficult orthopaedic surgical procedure, wherein the second surgical plan is a surgical plan different from the first surgical plan;
• and (viii) transmit at least one of the first or second surgical plans to the computing device of the healthcare facility via the network;
• wherein to determine whether the orthopaedic surgical procedure to be performed upon the bony anatomy of the patient is a difficult orthopaedic surgical procedure comprises to determine whether the orthopaedic surgical procedure to be performed upon the bony anatomy of the patient is a difficult orthopaedic surgical procedure as a function of determining that the patient-specific anatomical data is at least one of outside of the reference range or exceeds the reference threshold.