Methods for guiding a surgical procedure include accessing information relating to a surgical procedure, accessing at least one image of a surgical site captured by an endoscope during the surgical procedure, identifying a tool captured in the at least one image by a machine learning system, determining whether the tool should be changed based on comparing the information relating to the surgical procedure and the tool identified by the machine learning system, and providing an indication when the determining indicates that the tool should be changed.

A surgery assistance system includes: an endoscope; a display configured to display an image from the endoscope; a treatment tool that includes an end effector at a distal end; an input device that inputs an instruction to the end effector; and a processor connected to the endoscope, the display, the treatment tool, and the input device, wherein the processor is configured to detect a distal end position of the end effector based on the instruction, record the detected distal end position, and estimate a first treatment surface from a plurality of recorded distal end positions.

Systems and methods for monitoring medical perioperative time periods by surgical and non-surgical procedure steps. Particular embodiments relate to capturing and accumulating medical intraoperative procedure step durations. A method for valuing a surgery timeline may be based on surgeon(s), surgical team, CPT codes, patient comorbidities and other factors. The method may receive historical metrics from prior perioperative steps and intakes the surgeon's duration estimate or the organization administrative staffs duration estimate or both. The method displays the surgery timeline by applying the historical prior surgery metrics with input from the facility user.

The facility provides transparency into how all the perioperative step's times are accounted for within the period of time extending from when the patient enters the organization's facility (e.g. hospital, clinic, doctor's office, and the like) for surgical procedure until the time the patient is discharged.

These various combinations are desirable to provide information to the surgeon, surgical team and organization's administrative staff to improve case efficiency, patient care and user satisfaction.

Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, interface adapter devices, and surgical computing devices and systems that detect and analyze connectivity of an end effector to a robotic arm are disclosed. With this technology, an interface adapter device of a robotic arm includes a connectivity sensor that determines when an end effector is disconnected from the robotic arm to be used as a handpiece by a surgeon to carry out particular surgical task(s) associated with a surgical procedure. The interface adapter device can instruct the robotic arm to automatically enter an inactive state defined in a surgical plan for the surgical procedure upon detection of the disconnection. Upon reconnection of the handpiece, or installation of a different handpiece, the interface adapter device automatically facilitates readjustment of the robotic arm based on an active state (e.g., automated resumption of the surgical procedure) defined in a surgical plan for the surgical procedure.

A computer-implemented method to improve the point collection process during registration of a bone for a computer-assisted surgical procedure is provided. Based on bone digitization data, a simulation is performed to confirm the accuracy of the registration for different digitization regions. Results are tested to identify which digitization regions meet a predefined accuracy requirement. The resulting information is used to perform a computer-assisted surgical procedure. A computerized simulation method for registration of a bone for a computer-assisted surgical procedure is also provided based on processor executing random stroking an expected exposed surface of a bone model with multiple of stroke curves to cover most of the bone model surface with uniform noise and a random sample consensus is applied to remove outlying point to yield the best registration results, to find the top subset as to overlap. A method to perform computer-assisted surgery is also provided.

A computing system may identify a surgical instrument for a surgical procedure in an operating room (OR). The computing system may detect a control input by a health care professional (HCP) to control the surgical instrument. The computing system may determine the HCP's access control level associated with the surgical instrument. The computing system may determine whether the HCP has an authorization to control the surgical instrument. If the computing system determines that HCP is unauthorized to control the surgical instrument based on the access control level associated with the HCP, the computing system may block the control input by the HCP. If the computing system determines that the HCP is authorized to control the surgical instrument based on the access control level associated with the HCP, the computing system may effectuate the control input by the HCP to control the surgical instrument.

An artificial agent based cognitive operating room system and a method thereof providing automated assistance for a surgical procedure are disclosed. Data related to the surgical procedure from multiple data sources is fused based on a current context. The data includes medical images of a patient acquired using one or more medical imaging modalities. Real-time quantification of patient measurements based on the data from the multiple data sources is performed based on the current context. Short-term predictions in the surgical procedure are forecasted based on the current context, the fused data, and the real-time quantification of the patient measurements. Suggestions for next steps in the surgical procedure and relevant information in the fused data are determined based on the current context and the short-term predictions. The suggestions for the next steps and the relevant information in the fused data are presented to an operator.

A passive end effector of a surgical system includes a base connected to a rotational disk, and a saw attachment connected to the rotational disk. The base is attached to an end effector coupler of a robot arm positioned by a surgical robot, and includes a base arm extending away from the end effector coupler. The rotational disk is rotatably connected to the base arm and rotates about a first location on the rotational disk relative to the base arm. The saw attachment is rotatably connected to the rotational disk and rotates about a second location on the rotational disk. The first location on the rotational disk is spaced apart from the second location on the rotational disk. The saw attachment is configured to connect to a surgical saw including a saw blade configured to oscillate for cutting. The saw attachment rotates about the rotational disk and the rotational disk rotates about the base arm to constrain cutting of the saw blade to a range of movement along arcuate paths within a cutting plane.

A method of providing user guidance. First patient image data of a patient's body is obtained. A registration instruction indicative of where to acquire a registration point relative to a surface of the body is determined. Second patient image data of the body, having been acquired by an augmented reality device, is obtained. A transformation between coordinate systems of the first and the second patient image data is determined. Based on the transformation, display of the registration instruction on a display of the AR device is triggered such that a user of the AR device is presented an augmented view with the registration instruction being overlaid onto the patient's body. The augmented view guides the user where to acquire the registration point. Also disclosed are a computing system, a surgical navigation system, and a computer program product.

An interactive and dynamic surgical simulation system may be used in the context of a computer-implemented interactive surgical system. The surgical simulation system may provide coordinated surgical imagining. A processor may be configured to execute a simulation of a surgical procedure. The surgical procedure may be simulated in a simulated surgical environment. The processor may generate a first visual representation and a second visual representation. The first visual representation may be of a first portion of the simulated surgical environment. The second visual representation may also be of the first portion of the simulated surgical environment. The processor may coordinate generation of the first visual representation and the second visual representation such that the first visual representation and the second visual representation correspond to a common event in the surgical procedure. And the processor may present the first visual representation and the second visual representation for user interaction within the simulated surgical environment.