Patent ID: 9552660
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06K,G06T,G16H,H04N

Claim:
1. An imaging system comprising: a processor; an input device operatively connected to the processor; a display device operatively connected to the processor; and a memory device storing instructions which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate with the input device, the display device, and the memory device to: (a) display a multidimensional visualization of a surgical site; (b) receive a selection corresponding to a portion of the displayed multidimensional visualization of the surgical site; and (c) at the selected portion of the multidimensional visualization, display a portion of a multidimensional reconstructed image which corresponds to the selected multidimensional visualization, the displayed portion of the multidimensional reconstructed image being fused with the displayed multidimensional visualization by: increasing a transparency of the selected portion of the multidimensional visualization; and applying a smoothing function to a boundary between the multidimensional reconstructed image and the multidimensional visualization.