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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2025
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
A. Jonathan Mcleod, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mahdi Azizian, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Proksch, San Jose, CA (US);
Azad Shademan, Campbell, CA (US);
Pourya Shirazian, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-assisted surgical system is configured to perform a process comprising: generating an ultrasound image; determining a plurality of local descriptor values each corresponding to a different pixel included in a plurality of pixels included in an ultrasound image, the plurality of pixels including at least a first pixel corresponding to a first local descriptor value included in the plurality of local descriptor values and a second pixel corresponding to a second local descriptor value included in the plurality of local descriptor values; and classifying each pixel in the plurality of pixels individually as either showing tissue or showing non-tissue, the classifying comprising classifying the first pixel as showing tissue or showing non-tissue based only on the first local descriptor value and classifying the second pixel as showing tissue or showing non-tissue based only on the second local descriptor value.