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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2024
The Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, PA (US);
William E. Higgins, State College, PA (US);
Yuxuan He, State College, PA (US);
The Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, PA;
Abstract
A method for planning and guiding an endoscopic procedure, taking place in a hollow structure inside of a multi-organ cavity, that compensates for image-to-body divergence, first derives a procedure plan based on two scans of the multi-organ cavity at different volumes, which includes computing anatomical models for each scan, defining a region of interest (ROI) in the in the first scan, determining a route leading through the hollow structure to the ROI, deriving guidance cues that instruct how to maneuver the endoscope along the route toward the ROI, computing a 3D transformation that maps points in the first scan to corresponding points in the second scan, using the transformation to convert the route for the first scan into a corresponding route in the space of the second scan, and deriving guidance cues for the second scan that instruct how to maneuver the endoscope along the route toward the ROI.