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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2020
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks, Eindhoven, NL;
Caifeng Shan, Veldhoven, NL;
Marco Lai, Eindhoven, NL;
Robert Johannes Frederik Homan, Batenburg, NL;
Drazenko Babic, Best, NL;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
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.