A computer that determines at least an anatomic feature of a left atrial appendage (LAA) is described. During operation, the computer generates a 3D image associated with an individual's heart. This 3D image may present a view along a perpendicular direction to an opening of the LAA. Then, the computer may receive information specifying a set of reference locations. For example, the set of reference locations may include: a location on a circumflex artery, a location between a superior portion of the LAA and a left pulmonary vein, and/or a location on a superior wall of the LAA and distal to trabeculae carneae. Next, the computer automatically determines, based, at least in part, on the set of reference locations, at least the anatomical feature of the LAA, which is associated with the opening of the LAA and a size of a device used in an LAA closure (LAAC) procedure.

According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, a method for matching an actual surgical image and a 3D-based virtual surgical simulation environment, which is performed by an apparatus, includes setting POI information during surgery at each of surgery steps in a pre-stored surgical image obtained by performing surgery the same as the actual surgical image, matching the POI information with a virtual pneumoperitoneum model of a patient, which is used for the 3D-based virtual surgical simulation environment, the virtual pneumoperitoneum model being displayed on a UI, recognizing a real-time surgery step of the actual surgical image and determining a location of the POI information for the respective recognized surgery step, and obtaining and displaying image information, which is captured by moving a location of an endoscope inserted into the virtual pneumoperitoneum model to the same location as the determined location of the POI information, through the UI.

A system for determining a gaze point of a user, the system comprising at least one sensor configured to determine at least one signal representative of a variation in a volume of the interior of a user's ear, and a processor configured to determine a direction of eye movement of the user based on the determined signal, and determine a gaze point of the user based on the direction of eye movement. Further, the disclosure relates to a corresponding method.

A computer-assisted surgery system allows a user to control movements of a surgical tool by providing, to a control unit, inputs in the form of measured displacements via a movable part of a handle while treating a region of interest with the tool. The control unit is configured to enable motion of the tool with respect to an anatomical structure only if a user moves the movable part, receive the measured displacement of the movable part, receive from a localization unit the relative position and orientation of the tool relative to the anatomical structure, based on the measured displacement, on the surgical plan and on the relative position and orientation of the tool relative to the anatomical structure, compute an instruction to send to a motorized joint to move a robotic arm to operate the tool according to an optimal trajectory, and send the computed instruction to the motorized joint.

A method and system for automatically generating a pre-operative plan is disclosed that may include using a computing device to receive, from an electronic device associated with a physician, an identification message comprising identifying information associated with a target patient for a surgical procedure. The computing device may retrieve medical information associated with the target patient based on the identifying information, and apply machine learning models to identify a predicted condition of the target patient and to predict a surgical approach and one or more surgical components to use and may generate a surgical plan that comprises an indication of the surgical approach and an indication of the one or more surgical components.

A tibial tray system for a resurfaced proximal portion of a tibia for a knee replacement for a patient includes a tibial tray and at least one screw. The tibial tray includes a body having a superior portion, and an inferior tibia-engaging portion having a peripheral inferiorly-extending portion receivable in the at least one cavity formed in the periphery of the resected cancellous bone surface of the tibia of the patient. In some embodiments in the total knee replacement, a greater portion of a shearing force acting transversely on the tibial tray and the resected portion of the proximal portion of the tibia of the patient is resisted by the at least one inferiorly-extending wall compared to a portion of the shearing force being resisted along the center inferior surface of the tibial tray and the resected cancellous bone surface. The screw inhibits lift-off.

A virtual stent placement apparatus, a virtual stent placement method, and a virtual stent placement program for preventing a stent from blocking a branch of a blood vessel in a case in which the stent is virtually placed in the blood vessel extracted from a medical image are disclosed.

An exemplary system includes a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor may be configured to execute the instructions to obtain one or more operating characteristics of an instrument located in a surgical space; obtain one or more anatomical characteristics associated with the surgical space; and direct a computer-assisted surgical system to automatically perform, based on the based on the one or more operating characteristics of the device and the one or more anatomical characteristics associated with the surgical space, an operation with the instrument located in the surgical space.

To support easy arrangement of a robot, an information processing apparatus includes: a projection image generating section which generates a projection image that projects information specifying a range of motion of a target part of a medical arm onto the range of motion on the basis of first information regarding the range of motion and second information regarding a position and a posture of a projection device that projects an image in an operating room; and an output instruction section that outputs a projection instruction for the projection image to the projection device.

According to a computer-implemented method for planning therapeutic ultrasound treatment of a three-dimensional tissue region, a tissue model containing a material parameter relating to deformability and/or elasticity of a corresponding material of the tissue region is provided in spatially resolved and/or directionally resolved form. Based on the tissue model, part of the tissue region is determined as a treatment region, and, depending on the tissue model and the treatment region, a therapeutic plan is generated to change the at least one material parameter. The therapeutic plan includes at least one characterization parameter that characterizes a plurality of lesions with respect to spatial arrangement and/or pose and/or shape and/or at least one configuration parameter of the plurality of lesions for a therapeutic ultrasound apparatus for generating the plurality of lesions.