System and method for identification, labeling, and tracking of a medical instrument

• Main Authors: AVENDI, Michael R, MULDERS, Joost L
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.02.2022
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; COMPUTING; COUNTING; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS

The present invention is directed to a computing system and method for the real-time automatic identification and tracking of a medical instrument and optionally the identification of at least one anatomical object in an image generated by an imaging system. The method includes generating the image via the imaging system and providing the image to a processor of a computing system. Further, the method includes developing and training at least one machine-learned model to automatically identify or locate the medical instrument and optionally at least one machine-learned model to identify or locate the anatomical object and the surrounding tissue in the image. Moreover, the method includes automatically labeling the identified medical instrument and optionally the identified anatomical object and surrounding tissue on the image. Further, the method also includes displaying the labeled image to a user in real-time.