A device improves the outcome of bilateral eyelid, facial or other procedures, by improving the accuracy of bilateral pre surgical markings. The device may include a mirror, a camera, and a projector, where the projector projects an image captured by the camera onto a patient. Improved accuracy may be achieved using the device by projecting the mirror image of a pre-surgically marked reference eyelid or other body area onto the area of the other eyelid or contralateral body area that is similarly to be operated upon.

The present invention is a Miniature Vein Enhancer, for use in imaging the subcutaneous veins of a target area of a patient by a practitioner. The miniature vein enhancer includes a Miniature Projection Head that is secured to a tourniquet, where the tourniquet may be mounted to the bicep of a patient. The Miniature Projection Head includes a housing, and apparatus that images subcutaneous veins of the target area, and projects the image(s) of the veins onto the target area to overlie the subcutaneous veins, which aids the practitioner in pinpointing a vein location for a venipuncture procedure such as an intravenous drip, blood test, and the like.

The present invention relates to a device for navigating a medical instrument relative to a patient anatomy, a method for navigating a medical instrument relative to a patient anatomy, and a program element which, when executed by a computer, executes this method. The device comprises a position determination unit, a computing unit and a navigation display. The position determination unit comprises a sensor module configured to acquire current 3D data of the patient anatomy. The position determination unit further comprises a position sensor which is configured to acquire current movement data of the medical instrument. The computing unit is configured to match the current 3D data of the patient anatomy and the current movement data of the medical instrument with preoperative image data of the patient anatomy and, on this basis, to calculate navigation information for the medical instrument. The navigation display is configured to show the calculated navigation information.

Robotic medical systems can generate recommended port locations for a patient and communicate the recommended port locations to users of the robotic medical systems. A robotic medical system can include a robotic arm and one or more processors in communication with a 3-D scanner. The robotic medical system can be configured to obtain, via the 3-D scanner, data including a view of a patient of the robotic medical system, determine a recommended port location for the patient in accordance with the obtained data, and provide information indicating the recommended port location for the patient.

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.

An eye surgery apparatus includes a model surgical tool, a robotic arm coupled with an eye surgery tool, a tracking-system, and a processor. The model surgical tool is configured to be maneuvered by a physician. The robotic arm is coupled with an eye surgery tool and configured to be placed in proximity to an eye of a patient. The tracking-system is configured to track movements of at least the model surgical tool. The processor is configured to (i) receive the tracked movements of the model surgical tool from the tracking system, while the physician moves the model surgical tool to perform a model eye surgery on an oversized model eye, and (ii) apply to the robotic arm movements that mirror and scale-down the movements applied by the physician to the model surgical tool, to perform a surgical procedure on the eye of the patient using the eye surgery tool.

A method for adjusting the operation of a surgical instrument using machine learning in a surgical suite is disclosed.

First and second skeleton model data is determined based on first and second surface data of a patient. Each of the skeleton model data describes geometries of rigid anatomic structures of a patient at a different point in time. Skeleton difference data is determined describing differences between the geometries of the rigid anatomic structures. In a next step, movement instruction data is determined which describes movement to be performed by the rigid anatomic structures to minimize the differences, i.e. to correct the posture of the patient. The movement instruction data is for example determined based on anatomy constraint data which describes anatomical movement constraints for the rigid anatomic structures (e.g. range of motion of a joint). An instruction is displayed (e.g. using augmented reality), guiding the user how to move the rigid anatomic structures so as to correct the patients posture.

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 parameters of a non-robotic device in a surgical space, the non-robotic device engaged by a computer-assisted surgical system; generate, based on at least the one or more parameters of the non-robotic device, guidance content for use by the computer-assisted surgical system to facilitate guided teleoperation of the non-robotic device; and provide the guidance content to the computer-assisted surgical system.

Image guided surgery includes capturing a primary modality image of a surgical field of a patient with a camera system, obtaining a secondary modality image of the surgical field registered to the primary image, generating a surgical guidance image based at least in part upon the secondary modality image, and projecting the surgical guidance image onto the patient. The surgical guidance image presents visual augmentations on or over the patient to inform a medical practitioner during a surgical procedure.