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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2023
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vincent Duindam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Prashant Chopra, Foster City, CA (US);
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A medical system includes an elongate instrument, a tracking system, and one or more processors. The tracking system is disposed along at least a portion of the elongate instrument. The one or more processors are coupled to the tracking system and are configured to: generate a plurality of linked bounded-surface elements corresponding to a set of connected passageways of a patient anatomy; receive shape information from the tracking system, the shape information indicating a shape of at least a portion of the elongate instrument when the portion is disposed in the set of connected passageways; register the shape information to the plurality of linked bounded-surface elements; and based on the registering, display a composite image including an instrument image of the elongate instrument displayed within a model of the set of connected passageways.