Patent ID: 9727962
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01N,G06T

Claim:
1. A system for visualizing characteristic tissue in a surgical region to determine an edge region of tumor tissue in a human brain, the system comprising: a detection unit including at least one sensor and configured to detect light from an object point (x, y) in said surgical region; a computer unit connected to said detection unit and having a computer processor; a visualization unit having a display and being driven by said computer unit and configured to display unevaluated information defined by an image of an area within said surgical region; said computer unit including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program code stored therein; said computer processor being configured to run said program code; said computer unit being configured to determine a color coordinate having a position in a color region as to said light from said object point (x, y); said computer unit being further configured to compute, in dependence upon said position of the determined color coordinate in said color region, a two state digital color coordinate information (“0”, “1”) for controlling said visualization unit by comparing information as to said determined color coordinate to a characteristic reference color coordinate (x said visualization unit being further configured to display evaluated information defined by said two state digital color coordinate information (“0”, “1”) in said image of said area within said surgical region so as to distinguish the edge region of tumor tissue in the human brain from remaining tissue.