System and methods for identification of implanted medical devices and/or detection of retained surgical foreign objects from medical images

A computer system comprising:

• a memory;
• a data source including one or more electronic medical images representative of a portion of a physical body and object data representative of a plurality of pre-determined objects, each of said objects including a plurality of projections;
• a processor electrically coupled with the memory;
• wherein the memory has a machine-executable code stored thereon that causes the processor to:
• acquire at least one medical image from the data source depicting an unidentified object;
• analyze the medical image by comparing the medical image with at least a portion of the object data;
• and
• identify one or more characteristics of the unidentified object in the medical image responsive to the analysis.

A computer system comprising:

• a memory;
• a data source including one or more electronic medical images representative of a portion of a physical body and object data representative of a plurality of pre-determined radiographic markers of sponges, each of said markers including a plurality of projections;
• a processor electrically coupled with the memory;
• wherein the memory has a machine-executable code stored thereon that causes the processor to:
• acquire at least one medical image from the data source depicting an unidentified object;
• analyze the medical image by comparing the medical image with at least a portion of the object data;
• and
• identify one or more characteristics of the unidentified object in the medical image responsive to the analysis.

A computer system comprising:

• a memory;
• a data source including one or more electronic medical images representative of a portion of a physical body and object data representative of a plurality of pre-determined objects, said object data representative of a plurality of pre-determined objects having been automatically processed to identify and extract relevant features;
• a processor electrically coupled with the memory;
• wherein the memory has a machine-executable code stored thereon that causes the processor to:
• acquire at least one medical image from the data source depicting an unidentified object;
• automatically analyze the medical image by comparing the medical image with at least a portion of the object data;
• and
• automatically identify one or more characteristics of the unidentified object in the medical image responsive to the analysis without input from a human operator.