Patent ID: 11941179
Assignee: NUVASIVE, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for generating a display of an image of a patient's internal anatomy in a surgical field during a medical procedure, the method comprising:
with one or more processors:
producing an image set using a machine, wherein the image set includes permutations of a first image, the first image being based on a three-dimensional representation of the surgical field including the patient's internal anatomy and being with respect to a baseline orientation;
applying a first dose of radiation to the patient to obtain the three-dimensional representation;
acquiring a new image of the surgical field by applying a second dose of radiation to the patient, wherein the first dose of radiation is greater than the second dose of radiation;
selecting a representative image from the image set based on a correlation between the representative image and the new image;
identifying, within the new image, a location of a glyph caused by a radiodense object coupled to an imaging device used to obtain the new image;
merging the selected representative image with the new image using the location of the glyph as part of the merging; and
displaying the merged image.