This disclosure relates to planning systems, methods and instrumentation. The planning systems, methods and instrumentation disclosed herein may be utilized for planning orthopaedic procedures to restore functionality to a joint, may include determining an amount of bone loss along or otherwise adjacent to an articular surface of a bone. Instrumentation may be formed based on one or more dimensions associated with the bone loss. The articular surface may be repaired, which may include utilizing the instrumentation and planning systems to position and secure a bone graft along a position of the bone associated with the bone loss.

A method for planning a remote-controlled navigation of medical objects in a hollow organ of a patient. The navigation is performable by robot or in a robot-supported manner using a robot system, and is visually monitored by an imaging system. The robot system includes a drive system, a robot control unit, and at least one input unit arranged at a distance from the robot control unit. At least one data transmission link is present. The method includes supplying data for a planned navigation procedure of an object through a hollow organ with at least one navigation step, evaluating, by an evaluation system, the supplied data in terms of a performability level of the navigation procedure. The evaluation is carried out based on a comparison with empirical data and/or based on a theoretical model, and/or using a learning-based algorithm. The method includes outputting an evaluation result to an output unit.

Ultrasound device configured to carry out a HIFU treatment and to detect in real time during the HIFU treatment the temperature distribution in the area of treatment, comprising: an ultrasound probe comprising at least an array of piezoelectric or CMUT transducers, —piloting means of said ultrasound probe, computing means configured to receive and store said raw ultrasound signals reflected by said tissues and acquired by each of said piezoelectric or CMUT transducers, to process said reflected raw ultrasound signals in order to generate an ultrasound image, as well as to carry out other processing on said raw ultrasound signals reflected by said tissues, characterized in that computer programs are loaded on said computing means, configured to carry out the method for determining the actual acoustic heating rate of tissues, comprising the following steps: a) identifying, inside an ultrasound image (14), a region of interest (15) inside which an area to be treated (16) is provided, b) assigning a starting temperature distribution, by means of which a temperature value is assigned to each point of ROI, c) emitting a high intensity ultrasound beam (100) focused on a focal point (11) contained in said ROI for a predetermined time interval, and subsequently a broadband ultrasound pulse (200), and detecting the ultrasound signal reflected and/or emitted by the tissues under treatment, d) carrying out the frequency transform of said reflected ultrasound signal in response to said broadband ultrasound pulse (200), in order to obtain a reference frequency spectrum (200s), e) repeating steps c) and d) iteratively, thus obtaining a frequency spectrum for each iteration, f) assuming that the temperature at the focus (11) is equal to a predetermined temperature and function of the tissue in the treatment step when the frequency spectrum (202s) detected in response to a broadband ultrasound pulse (202) comprises a plurality of peaks (2021) not provided in the reference frequency spectrum (200s), g) determining the actual acoustic heating rate Q as a function of said predetermined temperature, of the intensity of said high intensity ultrasound beam (100).

Disclosed are a radio frequency operation prompting method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes acquiring physical characteristic data of an operating position in an object of a radio frequency operation in real time by multiple probes, obtaining a physical characteristic field of the object of the radio frequency operation according to the physical characteristic data acquired in real time; and obtaining a change of range of a to-be-operated area in a target operating area according to an initial range of the target operating area in the object of the radio frequency operation and a change of value of the physical characteristic data in the physical characteristic field, and displaying the change of range through a three-dimensional model.

An off-the-shelf oral splint that is operatively secured to the maxilla and mandible to assist in reduction and provide maintenance of reduction of maxillary and mandibular fractures in the edentulous or partially edentulous patient. The oral splint is fabricated into a plurality of standardized sizes. These sizes are determined by imaging a population of jaws, measuring dimensions thereof, manipulating (e.g., calculating the mean) these dimensions, and generating a size that is representative of a subset of that population. This can be done for all sizes that would represent individuals in that population. The splint itself is fabricated virtually by creating “U-shapes”, splitting them horizontally into halves, creating an evacuation channel, and generating a coupling mechanism to hold the halves together. The splint can then be printed or otherwise manufactured.

Systems and methods for treating tissue are disclosed. The target tissue is ablated. A real-time image of the target tissue is generated during the ablation. The real-time blood perfusion level of the target tissue is determined from the real-time image and compared to an initial blood perfusion level of the target tissue. The comparison provides a metric for the progress of the ablation, and ablation is halted when the real-time blood perfusion drops below a threshold level relative to the initial blood perfusion level.

An apparatus includes a processor and a non-transitory memory. The processor is configured to receive pre-operative patient specific data. The pre-operative patient specific data is inputted to a first machine learning model to determine a first predicted post-operative joint performance data output including first predicted post-operative outcome metrics. A reconstruction plan of the joint of the patient is generated based on a medical image of the joint, and at least one arthroplasty surgical parameter obtained from the user. The at least one arthroplasty surgical parameter is inputted into a second machine learning model to determine a second predicted post-operative joint performance data output including second predicted post-operative outcome metrics. The second predicted post-operative joint performance data output is updated to include an arthroplasty surgery recommendation, in response to the user varying the at least one arthroplasty surgical parameter, before the arthroplasty surgery, during the arthroplasty surgery, or both.

A system for electroporation ablation including a catheter having an electrode assembly and one or more states. The electrode assembly may be in different shapes when the catheter is at different states. The controller is configured to generate, based on one or more models of electric fields, graphical representations of electric fields generated by the electrode assembly when the catheter is at different states. In some embodiments, the controller is configured to overlay the graphical representations of the one or more electric fields on an anatomical map of a patient.

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 method for analyzing a real dental situation of a patient. The method includes steps, as follows, in succession. At an updated instant, acquisition of an updated image representing a real dental scene as observed by an operator. Determination of a virtual dental scene as a function of the representation of the real dental scene on the updated image. Presentation of the virtual dental scene in transparent mode and overlaid on the real dental scene, or display of the updated image on a screen and presentation of the virtual dental scene overlaid with the representation of the real dental scene on the updated image displayed on the screen, in transparent mode or not on the representation.