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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2020
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pourya Shirazian, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Mahdi Azizian, San Jose, CA (US);
A. Jonathan McLeod, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Azad Shademan, Campbell, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An exemplary tissue volume detection system accesses, during a surgical procedure involving resecting a piece of tissue from a body, a plurality of depth datasets for the resected piece of tissue. Each of the plurality of depth datasets is captured as a different portion of a surface of the resected piece of tissue is presented to an imaging device by an instrument that holds the resected piece of tissue in a manner that sequentially presents the different portions of the surface to the imaging device. During the surgical procedure and based on the depth datasets, the system generates a three-dimensional (3D) occupancy map that includes a set of voxels identified to be occupied by the resected piece of tissue. Based on the 3D occupancy map and still during the surgical procedure, the system determines an estimated volume of the resected piece of tissue. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.