Patent ID: 11931107
Assignee: SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for patient anatomy modeling to facilitate efficient surgical planning and procedures, the method implemented by one or more surgical computing devices and comprising:
obtaining at least first and second two-dimensional images of anatomy of a patient and at least one tracking fiducial attached to the patient anatomy;
generating a feature vector comprising information regarding a location or proximity of one or more features of the patient anatomy or tracking fiducial identified in each of the first and second two-dimensional images;
applying the feature vector to a stored repository of a plurality of three-dimensional virtual models to identify one of the three-dimensional virtual models that is a closest match to the patient anatomy; and
automatically controlling one or more surgical tools according to a surgical plan generated based on the one of the three-dimensional virtual models.