Systems and methods for displaying medical imaging data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11694335-B2
Application number	US-201916703776-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 4, 2019
Priority date	Dec 5, 2018
Publication date	Jul 4, 2023
Grant date	Jul 4, 2023

Abstract

A system for displaying medical imaging data comprising one or more data inputs, one or more processors, and one or more displays, wherein the one or more data inputs are configured for receiving first image data generated by a first medical imaging device, wherein the first image data comprises a field of view (FOV) portion and a non-FOV portion, and the one or more processors are configured for identifying the non-FOV portion of the first image data and generating cropped first image data by removing at least a portion of the non-FOV portion of the first image data, and transmitting the cropped first image data for display in a first portion of the display and additional information for display in a second portion of the display.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for displaying medical imaging data comprising:
receiving first image data generated by a first medical imaging device, wherein the first image data comprises a field of view (FOV) portion and a non-FOV portion, wherein the non-FOV portion is a portion of the imaging data that does not correspond to any portion of a scene;
analyzing the first image data to identify the non-FOV portion of the first image data;
generating cropped first image data by removing at least a portion of the non-FOV portion of the first image data that was identified based on the analysis of the first image data; and
displaying the cropped first image data in a first portion of a display and additional information in a second portion of the display.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-FOV portion is identified using edge detection.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first image data comprises a series of video frames and the edge detection is performed on more than one frame.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-FOV portion is identified using one or more of a location of a center of the FOV portion and a measurement associated with a dimension of the FOV portion.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the location of a center of the FOV portion and the measurement associated with a dimension of the FOV portion are determined during an imaging session initialization process.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the imaging session initialization process is a white balancing process.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first image data comprises a rectangular image or video frame and the FOV portion is a circular portion of the rectangular image or video frame.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first image data comprises a video frame.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first image data is received on a first input of a medical imaging processing system and the additional information is based on data received on a second input of the medical imaging processing system.

10. The method of claim 9 , comprising transmitting a display feed from the medical imaging processing system to the display, the display feed comprising a combination of the cropped first image data and the additional information.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving second image data generated by a second medical imaging device;
identifying a non-FOV portion of the second image data;
generating cropped second image data by removing at least a portion of the non-FOV portion of the second image data; and
displaying the cropped second image data in the second portion of the display.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the first image data is received on a first input of a medical imaging processing system and the second image data is received on a second input of the medical imaging processing system.

13. The method of claim 12 , comprising transmitting a display feed from the medical imaging processing system to the display, the display feed comprising a combination of the cropped first image data and the cropped second image data.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cropped first image data and the additional information are located on the display based on configuration data stored in a memory.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the configuration data comprises user-specified configuration data.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the configuration data is received via a network connection.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first image data is received from an endoscopic imaging system, an intraoperative C-arm imaging system, or an ultrasound system.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the first image data is received from a camera control unit.

19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the additional information comprises one or more of patient data, metrics, a graph, an image, device status, and a video feed.

20. A system for displaying medical imaging data comprising:
one or more data inputs;
one or more processors; and
one or more displays,
wherein the one or more data inputs are configured for receiving first image data generated by a first medical imaging device, wherein the first image data comprises a field of view (FOV) portion and a non-FOV portion, wherein the non-FOV portion is a portion of the imaging data that does not correspond to any portion of a scene, and
the one or more processors are configured for analyzing the first image data to identify the non-FOV portion of the first image data and generating cropped first image data by removing at least a portion of the non-FOV portion of the first image data that was identified based on the analysis of the first image data, and transmitting the cropped first image data for display in a first portion of the one or more displays and additional information for display in a second portion of the one or more displays.

21. The system of claim 20 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to identify the non-FOV portion using edge detection.

22. The system of claim 21 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to perform edge detection on more than one frame of a series of video frames.

23. The system of claim 20 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to identify the non-FOV portion using one or more of a location of a center of the FOV portion and a measurement associated with a dimension of the FOV portion.

24. The system of claim 23 , wherein the location of a center of the FOV portion and the measurement associated with a dimension of the FOV portion are determined during an imaging session initialization process.

25. The system of claim 24 , wherein the imaging session initialization process is a white balancing process.

26. The system of claim 20 , wherein the first image data comprises a rectangular image or video frame and the FOV portion is a circular portion of the rectangular image or video frame.

27. The system of claim 20 , wherein the first image data comprises a video frame.

28. The system of claim 20 , wherein the first image data is received on a first input of the one or more data inputs and the additional information is based on data received on a second input of the one or more data inputs.

29. The system of claim 20 , wherein the one or more processors are configured for:
receiving second image data generated by a second medical imaging device;
identifying a non-FOV portion of the second image data;
generating cropped second image data by removing at least a portion of the non-FOV portion of the second image data; and
transmitting the cropped second image data for display in the second portion of the display.

30. The system of claim 29 , wherein the first image data is received on a first input of the one or more data inputs and the second image data is received on a second input of the one or more data inputs.

31. The system of claim 20 , wherein an arrangement of the cropped first image data and the additional information for display is based on configuration data stored in a memory of the system.

32. The system of claim 31 , wherein the configuration data comprises user-specified configuration data.

33. The system of claim 32 , wherein the configuration data is received via a network connection.

Assignees

• Stryker Corp

Inventors

• Mahadik Amit
• Shen John
• Paramasivan Ramanan
• Feingold Ben
• Jones Robert
• Hunter Brandon

Classifications

• G06T5/00

  Image enhancement or restoration · CPC title

• A61B1/000094 Primary

  extracting biological structures · CPC title

• G06T2207/10016

  Video; Image sequence · CPC title

• G06T11/00

  Two-dimensional [2D] image generation · CPC title

• G06T7/13

  Edge detection · CPC title