Patent ID: 9672655
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06T

Claim:
1. A system operable to generate a three-dimensional model of a biopsy specimen removed from a patient, the biopsy specimen including a first tissue comprising a non-neoplastic material and a second tissue comprising a neoplastic material, the system comprising: scanning circuitry operable to scan, and generate first coordinate data of, at least a portion of an outer surface of the removed biopsy specimen; first circuitry operable to generate second coordinate data from a plurality of slices of the removed biopsy specimen, wherein the plurality of slices of the removed biopsy specimen are on one or more slides, wherein the second coordinate data defines an outer edge of the second tissue disposed within respective ones of the plurality of slices of the removed biopsy specimen, and wherein the scanning circuitry is operable to generate a scanned image of the plurality of slices of the removed biopsy specimen, wherein the first circuitry is further operable to generate the second coordinate data from at least the scanned image of the plurality of the slices of the removed biopsy; and rendering circuitry operable to generate the three-dimensional model of the removed biopsy specimen from the first coordinate data and the second coordinate data, wherein the three-dimensional model of the removed biopsy specimen includes a three-dimensional rendering of the outer surface of the removed biopsy specimen and a three-dimensional rendering of an outer boundary of the second tissue.