US 12,082,882 B2
Medical systems and related methods
Peter J. Pereira, Mendon, MA (US); Chad Schneider, Owings Mills, MD (US); Brandon W. Craft, Edgewater, MD (US); Kimberly Degraaf, Holden, MA (US); Jozef Slanda, Milford, MA (US); James M. Goddard, Pepperell, MA (US); and Christopher P. Gauvin, South Grafton, MA (US)
Assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed by Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed on Jul. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/377,614.
Application 17/377,614 is a continuation of application No. 15/969,967, filed on May 3, 2018, granted, now 11,089,941.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/501,466, filed on May 4, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0338044 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/005 (2006.01); A61B 1/307 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/221 (2006.01); A61B 18/26 (2006.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/22 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 34/10 (2016.02) [A61B 1/000094 (2022.02); A61B 1/0005 (2013.01); A61B 1/0051 (2013.01); A61B 1/307 (2013.01); A61B 6/4452 (2013.01); A61B 6/481 (2013.01); A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); A61B 6/5235 (2013.01); A61B 17/221 (2013.01); A61B 18/26 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 7/0014 (2013.01); A61B 2017/2215 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00511 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00642 (2013.01); A61B 2018/2238 (2013.01); A61B 2034/107 (2016.02)] 20 Claims
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1. A method for identifying material to be removed from a patient using an imaging device, a display, a control unit, and an insertion device, wherein the insertion device includes a delivery shaft, the method comprising:
obtaining a first set of image data from the imaging device;
sending the first set of image data to the control unit from the imaging device;
analyzing the first set of image data based on at least one of a darkness, a contrast, or a saturation, and generating a coded image identifying the material to be removed from the patient to be displayed on the display;
displaying the coded image on a first screen of the display; and
indicating the material to be removed with the insertion device based on the displayed coded image, wherein the coded image includes an indication of whether the material can be removed from the patient with a retrieval device extended through a lumen of the delivery shaft of the insertion device.