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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2022
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Brian Fouts, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Cole Kincaid Hunter, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Aric Josef Beikmann, San Jose, CA (US);
John Jingan Tang, San Jose, CA (US);
Wenjing Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Davin Trey Fish, Provo, UT (US);
Brady Lewis Woolford, Mapleton, UT (US);
Stryker Corporation, Portage, MI (US);
Abstract
A method for training a machine learning model to detect substances that compromise medical imaging clarity includes receiving imaging of tissue associated with a medical procedure type; receiving imaging of one or more substances that can affect clarity of imaging associated with the medical procedure type; combining at least a portion of the imaging of the tissue and at least a portion of the imaging of the one or more substances to generate machine learning training image data in which at least a portion of the tissue is at least partially obscured by the one or more substances; and training, with the training image data, a machine learning model to detect the one or more substances in imaging generated during a medical procedure of the medical procedure type.