Verb Surgical Inc.

Genevieve Foley

Bernhard A Fuerst

Yiming Xu

Embodiments described herein provide systems and techniques for tracking workflow inside an operating room (OR) by identifying and tracking target objects, such as a patient bed or a surgical table in the OR. In one aspect, a process for identifying and tracking a target object in an OR begins by receiving a depth image among a sequence of depth images captured by a depth camera installed in the OR. The process then generates a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud based on the depth image. Next, the process identifies a set of potential target points in the 3D point cloud that potentially belongs to the target object based on one or more target object criteria. The process next extracts one or more object clusters of from the set of potential target points using a data-point clustering technique. The process subsequently identifies the target object from the extracted one or more object clusters.

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Genevieve Foley