Patent ID: 11903771
Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 7:
8. A live brain imaging method, the method comprising:
after performing a craniotomy on a patient but prior to cutting a dura of the patient, controlling an ultrasound (US) system to acquire 2D preoperative brain images of the patient;
providing a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display via which the 2D preoperative brain images of the patient acquired after the craniotomy but prior to cutting the dura are manually labeled with contours of a tumor and surrounding blood vessels imaged in the preoperative brain images of the patient;
tuning a trained neural network (NN) for the patient using the labeled preoperative brain images of the patient acquired after the craniotomy but prior to cutting the dura to generate a patient-tuned trained NN;
during brain surgery performed on the patient after the cutting of the dura, controlling the US system to acquire two dimensional (2D) live brain images of the patient;
applying the patient-tuned trained NN to the 2D live brain images of the patient acquired during the brain surgery performed on the patient after the cutting of the dura to generate live contours of the tumor and the surrounding blood vessels imaged in the 2D live brain images of the patient; and
during the brain surgery performed on the patient after the cutting of the dura, controlling the display device to present the 2D live brain images of the patient with the live contours superimposed.