Patent ID: 11961225
Assignee: ITERATIVE SCOPES, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 13:
14. A method for improving malignancy detection in individuals comprising:
receiving, in real-time, spatially arranged image data associated with a plurality of images from an imaging device;
generating a plurality of processed images by processing the spatially arranged image data through one or more data structures storing one or more portions of executable logic included in a first machine learning model trained to identify one or more pixels of the spatially arranged image data representing a location of a potential malignancy in an individual and a second machine learning model trained to detect a surgical tool in the image as the spatially arranged image data is received from the imaging device;
determining, in real-time, that one or more processed images of the plurality of processed images satisfy a data quality metric;
based on determining that the one or more processed images satisfy the data quality metric, causing, in real-time, a display unit to display the one or more the processed images, wherein the one or more processed images include one or more graphical overlays;
detecting, by the second machine learning model, that the surgical tool is present in at least one of the processed images that satisfy the data quality metric while the surgical tool is actually present in a surgical space associated with the potential malignancy; and
in response to the detecting,
altering the one or more graphical overlays from the at least one of the processed images to avoid hindering a view of the surgical tool in the at least one of the processed images, wherein the altering of the one or more graphical overlays enables the graphical overlay to be removed while the surgical tool is being detected, and
displaying an indicator when the one or more graphical overlays are displayed for less than a threshold amount of time;

wherein the one or more graphical overlays are displayed when the surgical tool is no longer present in the at least one of the processed images and the one or more pixels of the spatially arranged image data representing the location of the potential malignancy are present;
wherein each of the one or more graphical overlays isolates one or more image locations; and
wherein each of the one or more image locations represents at least one pixel representing a location of a potential malignancy in the individual.