US 12,283,047 B2
Image matching for fracture reduction
Christopher Campbell, West Chester, PA (US); Glen Pierson, Glenmoore, PA (US); and Ross Hamel, West Chester, PA (US)
Assigned to DePuy Synthes Products, Inc., Raynham, MA (US)
Filed by DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC., Raynham, MA (US)
Filed on May 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/325,573.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/027,567, filed on May 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0361378 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01); A61B 17/68 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); G06T 7/33 (2017.01); G06T 7/60 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/56 (2006.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01)
CPC G06T 7/0014 (2013.01) [A61B 17/68 (2013.01); A61B 90/36 (2016.02); A61B 90/37 (2016.02); G06T 7/344 (2017.01); G06T 7/60 (2013.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 17/00 (2013.01); A61B 2017/564 (2013.01); A61B 2017/681 (2013.01); A61B 2034/105 (2016.02); A61B 2090/363 (2016.02); A61B 2090/376 (2016.02); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10116 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20101 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20212 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30008 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30204 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
imaging, intraoperatively, a fractured bone of a patient to obtain a first representation of the fractured bone in a computing system, the fractured bone defining at least a first bone fragment, and a second bone fragment that is separated from the first bone fragment by a fracture of an articular surface of the fractured bone;
imaging, intraoperatively, a contralateral bone of the patient to obtain a second representation of the contralateral bone in the computing system;
generating, intraoperatively in the computing system, a mirrored representation of the first representation or the second representation; and
comparing, intraoperatively in the computing system, 1) the first representation to a representation of a desired orientation of the fractured bone, wherein the representation of the desired orientation is the mirrored representation of the second representation, or 2) the mirrored representation to the representation of the desired orientation of the fractured bone, wherein the representation of the desired orientation is the second representation, to develop a comparison for use in reducing the fracture.