Olympus Winter Ibe Gmbh

Thorsten Juergens

Martin Wieters

Jens Schnitger

Borg Enders

Kristin Rosenkranz

A method for generating training data for endoscopic applications, in which stored image data comprising individual images or video data from endoscopic procedures/examinations are prepared as training data for machine learning applications. Wherein the method includes: (a) subjecting the image data to an image recognition algorithm for determining: (i) whether the stored image data was captured inside or outside a body, and (ii) whether text information and faces are contained in the stored image data, and (b) subjecting the image data to an image processing algorithm, with which the image data, depending on the result in (a): (i) are anonymized by obscuring or removing text information and faces when the stored image data is determined to have been captured outside of a body, and (ii) are anonymized by obscuring or removing text information when the stored image data is determined to have been captured inside of a body.

Method, system, and software program product for generating training data for endoscopic applications

A method for controlling an excitation light source for endoscopic fluorescence imaging. The method including: one of receiving an excitation light request signal by a switch on an endoscope or generating the excitation light request signal; at least when the excitation light request signal is present, evaluating at least one image detected by the endoscope in real time to determine whether the at least one image originates from inside or from outside of a body; and controlling the excitation light source to only generate excitation light with full power when the excitation light request signal is present and the evaluation indicates that the at least one image originates from inside of the body. Wherein the evaluation of the at least one image is determined by an artificial neural network.

Method, system, and software program product for controlling an excitation light source for endoscopic fluorescence imaging

A method for endoscopic imaging including: capturing white light images with a video endoscope under white light illumination; evaluating the captured white light images for a structure having a predefined characteristic, when the presence of the structure having the predefined characteristic is found in a white light image, setting a special light imaging mode in which a light source generates special light illumination using the at least one special light and one or more images of a video stream are captured under the special light illumination and subjected to image processing in the set special light processing mode; identifying a subregion of the at least one white light image that contains the structure with the predefined characteristic and reading out only the subregion of a CMOS image sensor associated with the video endoscope, and processing the image data read out from the subregion as one or more special light images.

Method for endoscopic imaging, endoscopic imaging system and software program product

A method for monitoring consumables during a medical procedure, wherein unused consumables are provided in a supply area, consumables are used in a surgery area, and used consumables are deposited in a collection area. The method including: observing the supply area and the collection area with at least one first camera, registering, by a first automatic image processing method, when unused consumables are removed from the supply area, registering, by a second automatic image processing method, when used consumables are deposited in the collection area, and balancing the consumables removed from the supply area and the consumables deposited in the collection area.

Method for monitoring consumables during a medical procedure and medical image processing system

A medical data communication system including: at least one medical device; at least one wireless access point; and a central computer; wherein the at least one wireless access point and the central computer are coupled via a network; the at least one medical device comprises a logic module and a transmit/receive module coupled thereto; the transmit/receive module and the at least one wireless access point are configured to establish a wireless data link at least intermittently; and the logic module comprises at least one input interface to receive data, the logic module being configured to transmit the received data via the transmit/receive module and via the wireless data link to the access point.

Medical data communication system, tracking system for medical devices, and method for operation thereof

A user assistance system for reusable medical devices and a method for monitoring processing. The user assistance system includes data glasses and a data memory in which a plurality of type datasets are saved that each include information relating to an identifying feature of a specific medical device type, and information relating to instructions for reprocessing these medical device types. The user assistance system records a user identifying feature and activates an associated user profile, to record a location identifying feature and to activate an associated location profile, and to display, as visual information, instructions assigned to the active user profile and the active location profile for reprocessing the medical device.

User assistance system for reusable medical devices

An operating method for a medical system for performing a surgical procedure, where the medical system includes at least one artificial intelligence, an intraoperative artificial intelligence and an output unit. The operating method including: supplying the intraoperative artificial intelligence with preoperative output data and intraoperative data; processing the preoperative output data and the intraoperative data by the intraoperative artificial intelligence; and outputting output data from the intraoperative artificial intelligence to the output unit that provides a user output based on the output data from the intraoperative artificial intelligence.

Operating method for a medical system, and medical system for performing a surgical procedure

An endoscopy system including: an endoscope; a light source; an optical cable connecting the light source to the endoscope; wherein the endoscope includes at least one bundle of endoscope optical fibers; the cable includes at least one bundle of cable optical fibers; a light source coupling point provided where light is coupled into the cable optical fibers; an endoscope coupling point provided where light is coupled from the cable optical fibers into the endoscope optical fibers; and the light source is configured to selectively illuminate individual cable optical fibers or groups of cable optical fibers at the light source coupling point, the light source including a controller to control the light source such that at least some of the cable optical fibers not coupled to endoscope optical fibers at the endoscope coupling point are not illuminated by the light source.

Endoscopy system and light source of an endoscopy system

An endoscope including: a main body; a shaft; and an optical fiber bundle extending through the shaft from the main body to a distal end of the shaft, wherein the optical fiber bundle terminates at the distal end of the shaft at an illumination exit, and the optical fiber bundle terminates at the main body at a light-guiding connector for attachment of an optical cable, and the light-guiding connector is configured to reduce an absorption, by a material of the light-guiding connector, of light that cannot be coupled from the optical cable into the optical fiber bundle.

Endoscope

A video endoscope including: a shank; an image-recording device arranged in a distal region of the shank; a flexible circuit board electrically connected to an image-recording device; and a cooling element; wherein the flexible circuit board rests on the cooling element and at least portions of an exterior of the cooling element fit an inner contour of the shank in a stress-free manner.

Video endoscope

The invention relates to an autoclavable charging device (-) for an electrical and rechargeable energy store () of a surgical instrument (). The invention further relates to a method for charging a rechargeable energy store () in an autoclaved surgical instrument () or for an autoclaved surgical instrument (). The charging device according to the invention is characterized in that this device comprises a receiving device () for receiving and converting an electromagnetic field into an alternating current voltage, and comprising charging electronics () galvanically connected to the receiving device (), wherein the charging electronics () convert the alternating current voltage into the charging voltage, and wherein the charging device (-) comprises at least one galvanic output connection () for galvanically connecting to the energy store () of the surgical instrument (). The method according to the invention is characterized in that before charging the energy store () is galvanically connected to the at least one galvanic output connection (-) of the charging device (-), wherein the surgical instrument () and/or the energy store () is then autoclaved, wherein the surgical instrument () and/or the energy store () is then brought into an effective range of a device () generating an electromagnetic field, and a resonant coupling is generated between the device () generating the electromagnetic field and a receiving device () of the charging device (-), said coupling leading to an energy transfer from the device () generating the electromagnetic field to the receiving device (), wherein the energy is used at least partially for generating a charging voltage for the energy store ().

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Hamburg, Germany

Thorsten Juergens