Patent ID: 11896288
Assignee: MEDTRONIC NAVIGATION, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 9:
10. A system to select a region for determining a presence of a bubble in an image, comprising:
a navigation system operable to:
determine a location of an instrument positioned within a subject in a subject space defined by the subject,
access a current image of the subject having an image space that is registered to the subject space, and
determine a location of the instrument within an image space; and

an image analysis processor system operable to execute instructions to:
identify a region of interest relative to the determined location of the instrument within the image space,
analyze image data of the current image with at least a bubble image library to determine if a bubble is present in the current image within the region of interest,
identify image portions of the analyzed current image that include the bubble,
generating a comparison image by removing the identified image portions in the current image that include including the bubble, and
output feedback to a user in light of the comparison image regarding continuing with a procedure performed by the instrument.