Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Marco Lai

Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks

Gerhardus Wilhelmus Lucassen

Robert Johannes Frederik Homan

Drazenko Babic

Caifeng Shan

Frank Verbakel

Nico Maris Adriaan De Wild

Marc Godfriedus Marie Notten

Claudio Dicorato

The application relates to the problem of navigating a surgical instrument (at) towards a region-of-interest (at) in endoscopic surgery when an image () provided by the endoscope is obscured at least partly by obscuring matter (at), wherein the obscuring matter is a leaking body fluid, debris or smoke caused by ablation. To address this problem, a computer-implemented method is proposed, wherein, upon detecting that the image from the endoscope is at least partly obscured, a second image is determined based on a sequence of historic images and based on the current position and orientation of the endoscope. Furthermore, a virtual image () is generated based on the determined second image.

Instrument navigation in endoscopic surgery during obscured vision

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Marco Lai