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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2021
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tao Zhao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prashant Chopra, Foster City, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A non-transitory machine-readable media storing instructions is provided. The instructions cause one or more processors to: define a subregion of a model of an anatomic region of a patient anatomy, the subregion corresponding to an area surrounding a tip of an image capture probe located within the anatomic region, the subregion including a plurality of virtual tissue structures—a set of virtual tissue structures of the plurality of virtual tissue structures is situated distally from the tip of the probe; compare a tissue structure in an image received from a camera positioned at the tip of the probe to a portion of the plurality of virtual tissue structures to identify a closest matched virtual tissue structure; and based on identification of the closest matched virtual tissue structure, register the image to the model to identify a virtual probe position for the tip of the probe with respect to the model.