US 12,289,533 B2
Systems and methods for mitigating artifacts in medical imaging
Benjamin Hyman Feingold, San Francisco, CA (US); Marc André, Spiegel b. Bern (CH); Levey Trac Tran, Denver, CO (US); and Rohit Subramanian, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Stryker Corporation, Portage, MI (US)
Filed by Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed on May 2, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/653,249.
Application 18/653,249 is a continuation of application No. 17/560,156, filed on Dec. 22, 2021, granted, now 12,003,861.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/132,444, filed on Dec. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0284052 A1, Aug. 22, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 23/72 (2023.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/005 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/72 (2023.01) [A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/005 (2013.01); A61B 1/05 (2013.01); A61B 1/0684 (2013.01); A61B 1/042 (2013.01); H04N 23/555 (2023.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method of providing a surgical video stream, comprising:
accumulating a sequence of images in a buffer of a pre-defined size, wherein the sequence of images are acquired by a camera of a surgical imaging system and wherein each image of the sequence is associated with a respective score, wherein the respective score for each image is assigned based on identification of one or more artifacts or the lack thereof in the respective image;
comparing the scores of the sequence of images in the buffer;
based on the comparison, identifying an image of the sequence of images;
removing the identified image from the sequence of images to obtain an updated sequence; and
adding the updated sequence of images to the surgical video stream.