Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.

Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Jonathan Michael Sorger

Mahdi Azizian

Ian E McDowall

Tao Zhao

Dorin Panescu

Prashant Chopra

Simon P Dimaio

Holger Kunze

Lutz Blohm

Anthony Michael Jarc

Henry C Lin

Christine Niebler

Jeffrey M DiCarlo

Andrew Cullen Waterbury

Brian David Hoffman

William C Nowlin

Joey Chau

Brent Tokarchuk

John D Seaman, Ii

Jesudoss Koilpillai

Veerappan Ramesh

Kulandai Raj Antony Sekar

Periyadurai Ratheshkumar

Wenyi Zhao

Simon Peter DiMaio

Catherine J Mohr

Bruce M Schena

Mark Earl Froggatt

Theodore W Rogers

David W Bailey

Oliver J Wagner

Alan Eton Loh

Lawton N Verner

Eric E Sanborn

Jeffrey M Dicarlo

Alexander L Antaris

Ian E Mcdowall

John D Ii Seaman

Karen C Brandao

An illustrative surgical system may access a plurality of images captured outside a structure within a patient; detect a difference between spectral reflectances of scenes captured in the plurality of images; and identify, based on the detected difference between the spectral reflectances of the scenes captured in the plurality of images, pixels in at least one of the plurality of images that correspond to structure tissue of the structure.

Waveband-selective imaging systems and methods

A movable table may be configured to support a patient. The movable table may comprise a communication interface configured to communicatively couple with a medical device. The movable table may also comprise one or more processors and a non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations may include transmitting, via the communication interface and to the medical device, information relating to a planned motion of the movable table and receiving, via the communication interface and from the medical device, a response to the information relating to the planned motion of the movable table. Based on the response received from the medical device, the operations may include selectively causing performance of the planned motion of the movable table.

System and method for coordinated motion among heterogeneous devices

A medical robotic system and method of operating such comprises taking intraoperative external image data of a patient anatomy, and using that image data to generate a modeling adjustment for a control system of the medical robotic system (e.g., updating anatomic model and/or refining instrument registration), and/or adjust a procedure control aspect (e.g., regulating substance or therapy delivery, improving targeting, and/or tracking performance).

Systems and methods for robotic medical system integration with external imaging

A surgical method is provided for use with a teleoperated surgical system (surgical system), the method comprising: recording surgical instrument kinematic information indicative of surgical instrument motion produced within the surgical system during the occurrence of the surgical procedure; determining respective kinematic signatures associated with respective surgical instrument motions; producing an information structure in a computer readable storage device that associates respective kinematic signatures with respective control signals; comparing, during a performance of the surgical procedure surgical instrument kinematic information during the performance with at least one respective kinematic signature; launching, during a performance of the surgical procedure an associated respective control signal in response to a match between surgical instrument kinematics during the performance and a respective kinematic signature.

Configuring surgical system with surgical procedures atlas

A system and method of specular reflection detection and reduction includes a processing unit including one or more processors and an imaging unit coupled to the processing unit. The imaging unit includes one or more first illuminators for providing illumination of a region of interest, one or more first detectors for detecting reflections of the illumination, one or more second illuminators for triggering fluorescing of one or more fluorescent materials in the region of interest, and one or more second detectors for detecting the fluorescing of the fluorescent materials. The processing unit is configured to receive a first image from the first detectors, determine one or more regions of high specular reflection in the first image, mask out the regions of high specular reflection in the first image, and generate a composite image based on the masked first image and the detected fluorescence. The first image includes the detected reflections.

System and method for specular reflection detection and reduction

An exemplary fluorescence imaging control system may direct, during a surgical procedure performed with a computer-assisted surgical system, an illumination source included in the computer-assisted surgical system to illuminate a scene associated with the surgical procedure with fluorescence excitation illumination configured to excite a fluorophore present at the scene and direct an imaging device included in the computer-assisted surgical system to detect, during the surgical procedure, fluorescence emitted by the fluorophore in response to excitation of the fluorophore by the fluorescence excitation illumination. The fluorescence imaging control system may determine, based on the detected fluorescence, a lifetime of the fluorescence and determine, based on the determined lifetime of the fluorescence, an identity of the fluorophore. The fluorescence imaging control system may configure, during the surgical procedure and based on the determined identity of the fluorophore, operation of the computer-assisted surgical system.

Systems and a method for directing an imaging device to detect fluorescence and for determining a lifetime of the fluorescence

A medical system comprises an eye tracking unit which includes an image display, an eye tracker, and a processor. The image display is configured to display to a user an image of a surgical field. The eye tracker is configured to measure data corresponding to eye gaze dynamics of the user during a procedure. The processor configured to assess a stress or fatigue level of the user based on the measured data. A corresponding method includes displaying an image of a surgical field on an image display, measuring a gaze point of a user during a procedure with an eye tracker, measuring data corresponding to eye gaze dynamics of the user during the procedure, and assessing a stress or fatigue level of the user based on the measured data.

Medical devices, systems, and methods using eye gaze tracking

A surgical robotic system may comprise a manipulator assembly including a manipulator arm having a distal portion. The surgical robotic system may also comprise a registration device mounted to a surgical table. The table mounted registration device includes a registration element shaped to contact with the distal portion of the manipulator arm by receiving the distal portion of the manipulator arm to define a spatial relationship between the manipulator assembly and the table mounted registration device. The distal portion of the manipulator arm moves in a plurality of degrees of freedom. The plurality of degrees of freedom is reduced by the table mounted registration device when the table mounted registration device is in contact with the distal portion of the manipulator arm. The surgical robotic system may also comprise a control system that determines the spatial relationship between the manipulator assembly and the table mounted registration device.

Methods and devices for tele-surgical table registration

A system for distributed heat flux sensing of body tissue includes a distributed sensor, a thermal energy source, and one or more processors. The distributed sensor provides a plurality of temperature measurements corresponding to a plurality of points in a measurement range. The thermal energy source applies thermal energy to the body tissue along the measurement range. The one or more processors are configured to receive the plurality of temperature measurements from the distributed sensor, determine an amount of thermal energy applied by the thermal energy source at each of the plurality of points, and determine heat flux at each of the plurality of points based on the plurality of temperature measurements and the amount of thermal energy applied by the thermal energy source. The plurality of temperature measurements correspond to the plurality of points.

System and method for distributed heat flux sensing of body tissue

A method of controlling a medical tool includes determining an insertion path and pose for the tool based on a target and deploying first and second articulated arms of a computer-assisted medical device based on a size and shape of a tool guide. The arms include respective pluralities of moveable links actuated by at least one respective actuator and forming respective kinematic chains extending from a base. The method further includes receiving the tool guide for coupling with the arms using respective mounting arms of the tool guide such that the tool guide functions as a link in a closed kinematic loop formed by joining the kinematic chains, orienting a guide hole of the tool guide to align with the insertion path, positioning the guide hole a desired distance away from the target, receiving the tool in the guide hole, and advancing the tool along the insertion path.

System and method for an articulated arm based tool guide

Techniques for virtually recreating devices include a replay service configured to access a log associated with a first device, extract a first log entry from the log, recreate a first recreated service request for the one or more shared services based on information associated with the first log entry, and send the first recreated service request to a shared service to recreate an event associated with the first log entry; one or more shared services configured to receive and respond to a second service request from a second device coupled to the logging and replay device; and a recreation engine configured to receive the first recreated service request, a response to the first recreated service request, the second service request, and a response to the second service request and create a virtual recreation of the first device.

Techniques for virtually recreating devices

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