Patent Publication Number: US-10307209-B1

Title: Boundary localization of an internal organ of a subject for providing assistance during surgery

Description:
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     FIELD 
     Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to a surgical assistive device. More specifically, various embodiments of the disclosure relate to a surgical assistive device and method for a boundary localization of an internal organ of a subject for providing assistance during surgery. 
     BACKGROUND 
     Advancements in the field of medical imaging techniques and associated sensors and/or devices have facilitated use of display devices that help visualize interior of a human or animal body during clinical analysis and surgical procedures. The visualization is usually done by a surgeon who physically inserts an instrument embedded with a miniaturized camera inside the body of a subject, via an incision or an opening in the body of the subject. For example, a surgeon may insert a laparoscope within the body of a subject to visualize different internal organs, such as liver, spleen, kidney, and the like, on a screen during surgery or a clinical examination. 
     The foremost reason to visualize such internal organs is associated with an estimation of the locations of specific organs of interest within the body of the subject within a region associated with the incision in the body. In practice, the visibility of such specific internal organs on the display screen may be affected by a presence of blood, gases, tissues that may lie in a field-of-view (FOV) of the instrument. The view of the internal organ may be further blocked by tumor growths on the same internal organ or other neighboring organs and the presence of such abnormal cell growth may change the appearance of the internal organ. Additionally, certain patients&#39; may exhibit variations in anatomical features of specific internal organs, such as variations in position, size, shape, and appearance of the internal organ, which may be caused by an infection or a disease. A mere assumption of the location and region of the internal organ from a given visual on the screen during surgery may risk the life of the subject. The accuracy of such assumptions may further depend upon an experience level of the surgeon and therefore, a precise and improved systems may be required to provide a concrete support and assistance during surgery. 
     Further limitations and disadvantages of conventional and traditional approaches will become apparent to one skilled in the art, through comparison of described systems with some aspects of the present disclosure, as set forth in the remainder of the present application and with reference to the drawings. 
     SUMMARY 
     A surgical assistive device and method are provided for boundary localization of an internal organ of a subject for providing assistance in a surgery, as shown in, and/or described in connection with, at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. 
     These and other features and advantages of the present disclosure may be appreciated from a review of the following detailed description of the present disclosure, along with the accompanying figures in which like reference numerals refer to like parts throughout. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  is a diagram that illustrates a network environment for providing assistance in a surgical procedure that involves localization of a boundary of an internal organ of a subject, in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 2  illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary surgical assistive device that localizes a boundary of an internal organ of a subject for providing assistance in a surgery, in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 3A  illustrates a scenario to depict a processing pipeline for derivation of a first global region boundary for boundary localization of an abdominal organ of a subject, in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 3B  illustrates an exemplary scenario for determination of a plurality of local region boundaries from a plurality of local sub regions in the selected test video frame, in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 3C  illustrates an exemplary scenario for boundary localization in the selected test video frame for an abdominal organ of a subject, in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 4A ,  FIG. 4B , and  FIG. 4C , collectively, illustrate a flow chart that depicts exemplary operations for boundary localization of an internal organ of a subject for providing assistance in a surgery, in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     Certain embodiments of the disclosure may be found in a surgical assistive device and method for boundary localization of an internal organ of a subject for providing assistance in a surgery. Various embodiments of the disclosure may provide a surgical assistive device. The surgical assistive device may include a surgical image-capture device and an organ boundary localization circuit communicatively coupled to the surgical image-capture device. The surgical image-capture device may be configured to capture a sequence of video frames of one or more internal organs of a subject. The sequence of video frames of the one or more internal organs of the subject may be captured based on insertion of the surgical image-capture device in the body of the subject. In some embodiments, the internal organ may be an abdominal organ, for example, liver, pancreas, stomach, and the like. 
     Various embodiments of the disclosure provide a surgical assistive device that may precisely generate a boundary of an entire internal organ of interest of the subject rather than for some portion of the internal organ of interest. The boundary of the internal organ of interest generated by the surgical assistive device may help a surgeon in image-guided surgery to track the internal organ of interest of the subject. The boundary of the internal organ of interest generated by the surgical assistive device may further facilitate a registration of modified intra-operative images for the internal organ of interest with pre-operative imaging data obtained from a mode different from the surgical image-capture device. The modified intra-operative images may correspond to the generated boundary of the internal organ of interest overlapped on a localized internal organ of interest in a test video frame and subsequent test video frames that are a part of the captured sequence of video frames received as a continuous video feed. 
       FIG. 1  is a diagram that illustrates a network environment for boundary localization of an internal organ of a subject for providing assistance in a surgery, in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure. With reference to  FIG. 1 , there is shown a network environment  100  that may include a surgical assistive device  102 , a surgical image-capture device  104 , a medical data server  106 , and a communication network  108 . There is further shown one or more subjects, such as a human subject  110 , an internal organ of interest  112  of the human subject  110 , and a surgeon  114 . The surgical assistive device  102  may be communicatively coupled to the surgical image-capture device  104 , and the medical data server  106 , via the communication network  108 . In some embodiments, the surgical assistive device  102  may include a display device  116 . In some embodiments, the surgical assistive device  102  may be communicatively coupled to the display device  116 . 
     The surgical assistive device  102  may comprise suitable logic, circuitry, interfaces, and/or code that may be configured to generate a boundary for an internal organ, such as the internal organ of interest  112 , of the human subject  110  for providing assistance in a surgery. The surgical assistive device  102  may provide a real-time or near real-time assistance to the surgeon  114  in a surgery by the localization of internal organ of interest  112  of the human subject  110  with the generation of the boundary of the internal organ of interest  112 . Examples of the surgical assistive device  102  may include, but are not limited to, a computer-assisted surgical system or a robot-assisted surgical system, a medical device, an electronic surgical instrument, a display device, and/or a computing device. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may further include a surgical image-capture device  104 . The surgical image-capture device  104  may capture one or more video frames of the internal organ of interest  112  of the human subject  110  when a surgery or diagnostic procedure is performed on the internal organ of interest  112 . Alternatively, the surgical assistive device  102  may be communicatively coupled to the surgical image-capture device  104 , via the communication network  108 . Examples of the surgical image-capture device  104  may include, but are not limited to, an endoscopic/laparoscopic camera, a medical resonance imaging (MRI) device, a computer tomography (CT) scanning device, a minimally invasive medical imaging device, and/or a minimal incision medical imaging device. 
     The medical data server  106  may comprise suitable logic, circuitry, and interfaces that may be configured to store one or more datasets of training images, where each dataset may include a plurality of training images related to an appearance likelihood result of the internal organ of interest  112 . The training images in the one or more datasets may include the imaging data of the internal organ of interest  112  of different human subjects. In accordance with an embodiment, the medical data server  106  may be configured to provide pre-stored versions of the one or more datasets to the surgical assistive device  102 , via the communication network  108 . In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may directly receive the one or more datasets from an external database (not shown in the figure) that may be different from the medical data server  106 . In accordance with an embodiment, both the medical data server  106  and the surgical assistive device  102  may be integrated as a standalone computer-assisted surgical system. The medical data server  106  may be implemented as a plurality of cloud-based resources by several technologies that are well known to those skilled in the art. Examples of the medical data server  106  may include, but are not limited to, a file server, an application medical data server, and a web medical data server. 
     A person of ordinary skill in the art will understand that the scope of the disclosure is not limited to an implementation of the medical data server  106  and the surgical assistive device  102  as separate entities. In accordance with an embodiment, the functionalities of the medical data server  106  may be implemented by the surgical assistive device  102 , without departure from the scope of the disclosure. 
     The communication network  108  may include a medium through which the surgical assistive device  102 , the surgical image-capture device  104 , and/or the medical data server  106  may communicate with each other. The communication network  108  may be a wired or wireless communication network. Examples of the communication network  108  may include, but are not limited to, a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), a cloud network, a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, a plain old telephone service (POTS), a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), and/or the Internet. Various devices in the network environment  100  may be configured to connect to the communication network  108 , in accordance with various wired and wireless communication protocols. Examples of such wired and wireless communication protocols may include, but are not limited to, Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), ZigBee, EDGE, infrared (IR), IEEE 802.11, 802.16, cellular communication protocols, and/or Bluetooth (BT) communication protocols. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the internal organ of interest  112  may be an internal organ of a subject, such as the human subject  110 . The internal organ of interest  112  may correspond to an abdominal organ. The abdominal organ may include a liver, a left kidney, a right kidney, a spleen, a pancreas and/or the like. The internal organ of interest  112  may include infected abdominal organ, diseased abdominal organ and/or the abdominal organs with cyst, tumor or other abnormal growth. 
     A person of ordinary skill in the art will understand that the scope of the disclosure is not limited to implementation of the disclosed surgical assistive device  102  and method to assist in a surgery of the internal organ of interest  112  of the human subject  110 , as shown. In accordance with an embodiment, the disclosed surgical assistive device  102  and method may be used to assist in a surgery of the internal organ of interest  112  of an animal subject. Further, the disclosed surgical assistive device  102  and method may also be useful to provide assistance in a surgery of anatomical portions or regions other than the abdominal organs, as discussed above. 
     The display device  116  may comprise suitable logic, circuitry, interfaces, and/or code that may be configured to display a sequence of video frames to a user, such as the surgeon  114 . In accordance with an embodiment, the display device  116  may display a test video frame from the sequence of video frames, in real time or near-real time, while the surgical or diagnostic procedure is performed on the internal organ of interest  112  of the human subject  110 . The display device  116  may be further configured to display the boundary localization of the internal organ of interest  112  of the human subject  110  that may be detected in the test video frame by the medical data server  106 . Examples of the display device  116  may include, but are not limited to, a smartphone, a camera, a tablet computer, a laptop, a wearable electronic device, a television, an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), and/or a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) device. 
     A person of ordinary skill in the art will understand that in accordance with an embodiment, the display device  116  may be integrated with the surgical assistive device  102 . Alternatively, the display device  116  may be communicatively coupled to the surgical assistive device  102 . A user, such as the surgeon  114 , of the display device  116  may control the surgical assistive device  102 , with visual support, instructions, and/or guidance from a user-interface of the display device  116 . 
     In operation, a user (e.g., the surgeon  114 ) may utilize the surgical assistive device  102  to perform a surgical or diagnostic procedure on the internal organ of interest  112  of the human subject  110 . Examples of the surgical or diagnostic procedure may include, but are not limited to, a minimally invasive surgery/diagnosis procedure, a minimal incision surgery/diagnosis procedure, a laparoscopic procedure, and/or an endoscopic procedure. In accordance with the surgical procedure, the surgeon  114  may insert the surgical image-capture device  104  in a specific region, such as an abdominal region, of the body of the human subject  110 . The surgical image-capture device  104  may be attached to an instrument, such as a laparoscope and may further include an image sensor (not shown) to capture a sequence of video frames within the body of the human subject  110 . For example, the surgical image-capture device  104  may be attached to one end of the laparoscope. The laparoscope that may carry the surgical image-capture device  104  may be further inserted through an incision in the body of the human subject  110 . 
     For example, the surgeon  114  may want to find a boundary of an entire internal organ of interest  112  inside the body of the human subject  110  for computer assisted navigation of the laparoscope within the body of the human subject  110 . Such computer assisted navigation may further facilitate the surgeon  114  in image-guided surgery to track the internal organ of interest  112  of the subject. In accordance with an embodiment, a boundary of the internal organ of interest  112  generated by the surgical assistive device  102  may help in registration of modified intra-operative images for the internal organ of interest  112  with pre-operative imaging data obtained from a mode different from the surgical image-capture device  104 . The modified intra-operative images may correspond to the generated boundary of the internal organ of interest  112  overlapped on a localized internal organ of interest  112  in a test video frame and subsequent test video frames that may be a part of the captured sequence of video frames, received as a continuous video feed. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the internal organ of interest  112  may be an abdominal organ, for example, a liver, which the surgeon  114  may want to precisely locate in a laparoscopic surgery. In some embodiments, the internal organ of interest  112  may include, but are not limited to lungs, a pancreas, a spleen, a pair of kidneys, and the like. In certain scenarios, the internal organ that has to be examined or resected may not be clearly visible to the surgeon  114  because of the presence of blood, gases, tissues that may lie in a field-of-view of the surgical image-capture device  104 . In some cases, the field-of-view of the internal organ of interest  112  may be blocked by tumor growth on the same organ or neighboring organs. The presence of such abnormal cell growth may change the appearance of the internal organ of interest  112  that is to be examined or resected by the surgeon  114 . 
     Certain patients may have different anatomical structures that may cause variations in the position, size, shape, and appearance of the internal organ associated with such anatomical structures, for example, an abdominal organ. In certain other scenarios, the appearance of the organ of interest  112  of the human subject  110  may be different from the normal appearance due to an infection or a disease. Thus, a location of the internal organ of interest  112  may be imperfectly assumed within body of the subject  110  as a result of the inherent anatomical structure variations and complexity of the internal organs during surgery. Such imperfect assumptions for the location of the internal organ may further pose a negative impact on accuracy and proficiency of the surgeon  114  while performing a surgery and may further put safety of the subject  110  in jeopardy. Therefore, the surgical assistive device  102  may be configured to assist the surgeon  114  in way that appearance complexities and location-based bias may be reduced, and a safe, accurate, and quick assistance may be provided during surgery. Such aforementioned issues may be solved based on a robust identification of a boundary of the internal organ of interest  112  within the captured sequence of the frames, to further assist the surgeon  114  at real time surgical procedure. Such boundary estimation may mitigate bias of the surgeon  114  generated based on abnormal appearance, growth, variations in anatomical structure, and other factors. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical image-capture device  104  may be configured to capture a sequence of video frames (e.g., a video) of the one or more internal organs of the human subject  110 , based on insertion of the surgical image-capture device  104  in the body of the human subject  110 , via an incision or a specific passage within the body of the subject  110 . The captured sequence of video frames may include a portion or an entire view of the one or more internal organs of the human subject  110 . 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be configured to receive the captured sequence of video frames from the surgical image-capture device  104 . As the captured sequence of video frames may include a portion or an entire view of different internal organs of the human subject  110 , certain images may be selected from the captured sequence of video frames for further processing to avoid selection of unwanted image frames. For example, selected images may capture a view of internal organs from different viewing angles. The unwanted image frames may have a view where the internal organ of interest  112  may be absent or a quality score of the view may be less than a threshold quality as a result of presence of other anatomical portions of the human subject  110 . 
     The surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to select a test video frame from the received sequence of video frames. The selection of the test video frame may be done based on an area occupied by the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame. The test video frame may be selected when the area occupied by the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame may be greater than a threshold area. In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to receive a dataset of the plurality of training images related to an appearance likelihood result from the medical data server  106 . The surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to utilize the received plurality of training images to compute an appearance likelihood of the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame. The computed appearance likelihood may generate an appearance likelihood result of the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame. In accordance with an embodiment, the appearance likelihood result may be computed based on further computations of a color likelihood and a texture likelihood of the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to compute the color likelihood of the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame. The computation of the color likelihood may be done based on a comparison of a color component of the portion of the test video frame with a color component in the plurality of training images. The color component may correspond to a Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) color model. The surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to compute the texture likelihood of the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame. The computation of the texture likelihood of the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame may be done based on a comparison of the texture component of the test video frame with the texture component in the plurality of training images. The color likelihood and the texture likelihood may be computed independent of each other to derive the appearance likelihood result of the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to globally segment the test video frame to a plurality of regions to obtain a global segmentation result. In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to assign a different color to each of the plurality of regions. In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to detect edges of the plurality of regions in the global segmentation result. A global edge detection result may be further generated based on the detection of the edges of the plurality of regions in the global segmentation result. In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be configured to recolor the plurality of regions in the global segmentation result of the test video frame based on the four-color theorem. Alternatively stated, different regions may be recolored with four different colors (or more colors) to maximize a contrast between adjacent regions of the plurality of regions and obtain distinct edges in the global edge detection result. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be configured to derive a first global region boundary of the internal organ of interest  112 . The first global region boundary may be derived based on integration of the appearance likelihood result, the global segmentation result, and the global edge detection result associated with the internal organ of interest  112  in the selected test video frame. In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to select a plurality of local sub regions to determine a plurality of local boundaries based on the generated first global region boundary of the internal organ of interest  112 . In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be configured to locally segment the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest  112  in the selected test video frame. A local segmentation result may be further generated based on the local segmentation of the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest  112 . 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to dilate the generated edges of the plurality of local sub regions. The dilation of the edges may be done based on the first global region boundary of the internal organ of interest  112  and the local segmentation result. The generated edges of the plurality of local sub regions may include a first type of edges and a second type of edges. The first type of edges may include edges above a threshold value and the second type of edges may include edges below the threshold value. The first type of edges may be relatively more continuous as compared to the second type of edges that are discontinuous. Therefore, the first type of edges may be referred as strong edges and the second type of edges may be referred as weak edges. 
     The surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to retain the first type of edges from the generated edges of the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest  112  based on a masking operation on the second type of edges. The first type of edges may be further enhanced based on the dilated edges of the plurality of local sub regions. The enhanced first type of edges may exhibit a specific sharpness. However, such enhanced edges may lack sufficient consistency and continuity to be considered as a determinate boundary for the internal organ of interest  112 . Therefore, the surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to interpolate the retained first type of edges of each local sub region of the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest  112  by a single curve. The surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to generate a single color space fitting boundary on the interpolated single curve for each local sub region of the plurality of local sub regions. A local boundary may be further determined from the generated single color space fitting boundary for each local sub region of the plurality of local sub regions in the test video frame. 
     The surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to determine a plurality of local region boundaries for the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest  112  in the selected test video frame. The determination of the local region boundaries may be done based on the local segmentation result and the local edge detection result of each of the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest  112 . The plurality of local region boundaries may be determined with guidance from the derived first global region boundary of the internal organ of interest  112 . The plurality of local regions boundary may be least affected by global variations in region boundary of the internal organ of interest  112 . Therefore, the plurality of local region boundaries may be integrated based on guidance from the derived first global region boundary of the internal organ of interest  112 . Thereafter, the surgical assistive device  102  may be configured to generate a second global region boundary for the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame of the captured sequence of video frames. The second global region boundary may trace a boundary of the internal organ of interest  112  that may exhibit a minimum deviation from an actual boundary of the internal organ of interest  112 . The generation of such second global region boundary may be done based on the determined plurality of local region boundaries and the first global region boundary. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to register modified intra-operative images for the internal organ of interest  112  with pre-operative imaging data obtained from a mode different from the surgical image-capture device  104 . The modified intra-operative images may correspond to the generated second global region boundary overlapped on the localized internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame and subsequent test video frames of a continuous video feed. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to localize the internal organ of interest  112  within the body of the subject in the surgery. The localization of the internal organ of interest  112  may be done based on the generated second global region boundary for the internal organ of interest  112 . Additionally, the surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to overlap the generated second global region boundary for the internal organ of interest  112  at a contour of the localized internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame and different test video frames of a continuous video feed captured via the surgical image-capture device  104 . 
     The surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to display, at the display device  116 , the generated second global region boundary in the modified sequence of video frames as a continuous feed captured by the surgical image-capture device  104 , in real time or near-real time. In accordance with an embodiment, the surgical assistive device  102  may be further configured to generate instructions to enable navigation of the surgical image-capture device  104  and a surgical instrument within the body of the subject to reach to the localized internal organ of interest  112  for a precision image-guided surgery of the localized internal organ of interest  112 . 
       FIG. 2  illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary surgical assistive device for boundary localization of an internal organ of a subject for providing assistance during surgery, in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure.  FIG. 2  is explained in conjunction with elements from  FIG. 1 . With reference to  FIG. 2 , there is shown the surgical assistive device  102 . The surgical assistive device  102  may include one or more circuits, such as an organ boundary localization circuit  202 , a memory  204 , a network interface  206 , one or more input/output (I/O) devices, such as an I/O device  208 . The organ boundary localization circuit  202  may include a processor  202 A, and an internal organ boundary localizer  202 B. 
     The I/O device  208  may be communicatively coupled to the surgical image-capture device  104  and the display device  116 , via the communication network  108 . Alternatively, the I/O device  208  may be directly coupled to the surgical image-capture device  104  and the display device  116  through dedicated buses and/or channels. The organ boundary localization circuit  202  may be communicatively coupled to the memory  204 , the network interface  206 , and the I/O device  208 . The network interface  206  may communicate with the one or more medical data server  106   s , such as the medical data server  106 , via the communication network  108  under the control of the organ boundary localization circuit  202 . 
     The organ boundary localization circuit  202  may comprise suitable logic, circuitry, interfaces, and/or code that may be configured to localize a boundary of the internal organ of interest  112  of the human subject  110 . Such boundary localization may be done based on implementation of different image processing techniques by different components of the organ boundary localization circuit  202 . The organ boundary localization circuit  202  may be implemented based on a number of processor technologies known in the art. Examples of the organ boundary localization circuit  202  may be an X86-based processor, X86-64-based processor, a Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) processor, an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) processor, a Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC) processor, a central processing unit (CPU), an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) processor, a Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processor, and/or other processors or circuits. 
     The processor  202 A may comprise suitable logic, circuitry, and interfaces that may be configured to execute a set of instructions stored in the memory  204 . Examples of the processor  202 A may be an x86-based processor, x86-64-based processor, an ASIC processor, a CPU, an EPIC processor, a VLIW processor, and/or other processors or circuits. 
     The internal organ boundary localizer  202 B may comprise suitable logic, circuitry, and interfaces that may be configured to localize the internal organ of interest  112  within the body of the human subject  110  in the surgery, based on a global region boundary generated for the internal organ of interest  112 . In accordance with an embodiment, the second global region boundary may be generated based on a determined plurality of local region boundaries and a first global region boundary for the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame of the captured sequence of video frames. The internal organ boundary localizer  202 B may be implemented based on a number of processor technologies known in the art. Examples of the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B may be an x86-based processor, x86-64-based processor, a RISC processor, an ASIC processor, a CISC processor, a CPU, an EPIC processor, a VLIW processor, and/or other processors or circuits. 
     The memory  204  may comprise suitable logic, circuitry, and/or interfaces that may be configured to store a machine code and/or a set of instructions executable by the organ boundary localization circuit  202 . The memory  204  may be configured to store dataset of a plurality of training images related to appearance likelihood result corresponding to the internal organ of interest  112 . The dataset may be retrieved from the medical data server  106  and stored at the memory  204 . The memory  204  may be further configured to store a sequence of video frames captured by the surgical image-capture device  104 . The memory  204  may be further configured to store operating systems and associated applications. Examples of implementation of the memory  204  may include, but are not limited to, Random Access Memory (RAM), Read Only Memory (ROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), Hard Disk Drive (HDD), a Solid-State Drive (SSD), a CPU cache, and/or a Secure Digital (SD) card. 
     The network interface  206  may comprise suitable logic, circuitry, and interfaces that may be configured to communicate with the surgical image-capture device  104 , the medical data server  106 , and/or the display device  116 , via the communication network  108  (as shown in  FIG. 1 ). The network interface  206  may implement known technologies to support wired or wireless communication of the surgical assistive device  102  with the communication network  108 . The network interface  206  may include, but is not limited to, an antenna, a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, one or more amplifiers, a tuner, one or more oscillators, a digital signal processor, a coder-decoder (CODEC) chipset, a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, and/or a local buffer. 
     The I/O device  208  may comprise suitable logic, circuitry, and interfaces that may be configured to receive an input from and provide an output to a user based on the received input from the user. The I/O device  208  may receive an input from the surgical image-capture device  104  and provide an output to the display device  116  that may include visualizations and other data to render interactivity and/or other services to the user. Such visualizations and other data may be rendered with support from the surgical assistive device  102 . Examples of the input devices may include, but are not limited to, the surgical image-capture device  104 , a touch screen, a camera, a keyboard, a mouse, a joystick, a microphone, a motion sensor, a light sensor, and/or a docking station. Examples of the output devices may include, but are not limited to, the display device  116 , a projector screen, and/or a speaker. Various operations of the different components of the surgical assistive device  102 , may be further understood in details, for example, from  FIGS. 3A to 3C, 4A, 4B, and 4C . 
       FIG. 3A  illustrates a scenario to depict a processing pipeline for derivation of a first global region boundary for boundary localization of an abdominal organ of a subject, in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure. The abdominal organ may be liver and test images for liver may be received from the surgical image-capture device  104  during surgery, for example, during hepatectomy.  FIG. 3A  is explained in conjunction with elements from  FIG. 1  and  FIG. 2 . In  FIG. 3A , there is shown an exemplary scenario  300 A for different operations  302 ,  306 ,  308 ,  310 ,  312 , and  314  in the processing pipeline. 
     At  302 , a test video frame may be captured by the surgical image-capture device  104 . The test video frame may depict (portions or entirety of) tools  302 A (for example, needles) used during the surgery, blood spots  302 B in different portions of the body, and an abdominal organ  302 C or a portion of different abdominal organs of the human subject  110 . One of the abdominal organs, i.e., the liver has to be localized by generation of a boundary in the test video frame. The view of the body in the test video frame may include portions (or in entirety) of various anatomical structures, blood spots, tumors, surgery tools, and the like. 
     The surgical image-capture device  104  may be configured to capture a sequence of video frames (e.g., a video). The captured sequence of video frames may depict one or more internal organs of the human subject  110 . In accordance with an embodiment, the I/O device  208  may be configured to receive the captured sequence of video frames from the surgical image-capture device  104 . As the captured sequence of video frames may include different internal organs of the human subject  110 , certain images may be selected from the captured sequence of video frames for further processing to avoid selection of unwanted image frames, where a view of the liver may not be present or a quality score of the view may be less than a threshold quality as a result of presence of other anatomical portions of the human subject  110 . The organ boundary localization circuit  202  may be configured to select the test video frame from the received sequence of video frames. The selection of the test video frame may be done based on an area occupied by the liver in the test video frame. The test video frame may be further selected when the area occupied by the liver in the test video frame is greater than a threshold area. 
     At  304 , an appearance likelihood result is shown. The appearance likelihood result may include different intensities of pixel values  304 A to  304 D. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to receive a plurality of training images from the medical data server  106 . The plurality of training images from the dataset may include patches extracted from multi-modal images, for example, images taken from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computational Tomography (CT), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery (FLAIR), and Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA)-based medical imaging techniques for the same or a different human subject. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to compute the appearance likelihood of the abdominal organ in the test video frame. The computation of the appearance likelihood may be done based on the test video frame and the training images of the abdominal organ. The appearance likelihood result may be computed further based on a color likelihood and a texture likelihood of the liver in the test video frame. The color likelihood and the texture likelihood of the liver may be computed independent of each other. Therefore, the appearance likelihood result may be done based on prior information of how the liver looks like in terms of color and texture. 
     The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to compute a color likelihood of the liver in the test video frame. The computation of the color likelihood of the liver in the test video frame may be done based on a comparison of a color component of the test video frame with a color component in the training images for different portions of the liver. The color component may correspond to an RGB color model. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to compute a texture likelihood of the liver in the test video frame. The computation of the texture likelihood of the liver in the test video frame may be done based on a comparison of a texture component of the test video frame with a texture component in the training images corresponding to the liver. The color likelihood and the texture likelihood may be computed independent of each other to compute the appearance likelihood result (as shown at  304 ) of the abdominal organ in the test video frame. 
     At  306 , the global segmentation result is shown. The global segmentation result may depict different tools  306 A and  306 B used during the surgery, blood spots  306 C, and (portions or entirety) of abdominal organs  302 D and  302 E in the test video frame. The global segmentation result may include a view of various anatomical portions, blood spots, tumors, tools, and the like. The global segmentation result may be represented as a plurality of regions in the test video frame. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to globally segment the test video frame to a plurality of regions and obtain the global segmentation result based on the plurality of regions. The segmentation may serve as a first to localize organ boundary in the test video frame and may facilitate segregation of the test video frame into different regions that exhibits different pixel information. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to assign a different color to each of the plurality of regions. The global segmentation result may be generated by the global segmentation of the test video frame. Global segmentation of the test video frame may be done based on partitions of the test video frame into the plurality of parts or the plurality of regions, by grouping pixels that have similar characteristics into one region. Different methods used for global segmentation may include thresholding, line detection, canny edge detection, and the like. 
     At  308 , a global edge detection result is shown. The global edge detection result may depict detected edges  308 A and  308 B in the test video frame. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to detect edges of the plurality of regions. The global edge detection result may be generated by the detection of the edges of the plurality of regions. Detection of edges may be one of the operations for localization of the organ boundary. The global edge detection result may be utilized to locate the pixels in the segmented result that corresponds to the edges of different image features, such as the abdominal organs, tools, and blood spots present in the test video frame. The global edge detection result may usually be done with a first and/or second derivative measurement that may be followed by a test that marks the pixel to an edge of the abdominal organ. The global edge detection result may include a binary image that may contain only the detected edge pixels. 
     At  310 , an integrated image is shown. The integrated image may include a plurality of new regions  310 A to  310 D. In accordance with an embodiment, the processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to merge the plurality of regions identified in the global segmentation result. The plurality of regions may be merged based on the computed appearance likelihood result, the global segmentation result, and the global edge detection result that corresponds to the test video frame. The computed appearance likelihood result, the global segmentation result, and the global edge detection result may be integrated to obtain the integrated image. The plurality of regions in the global segmentation result may be merged together or retained as separate regions based on both of the appearance likelihood result and the global edge detection result. In an exemplary scenario, when two regions from the plurality of regions have very low probability for localization of the liver in a probability map for the liver, the two regions may be retained as separated regions. 
     Four regions  306 D to  306 G may be integrated into one region when the four regions  306 D to  306 G exhibit a high probability for localization of liver in a probability map for the liver. Also, the four regions  306 D to  306 G may be integrated to a single region in accordance with the value information of the detected edges from the global edge detection result. The four regions  306 D to  306 G in the global segmentation result may be merged into a single region  310 A in the integrated image. The merged region  310 A may be assigned a new color. The two regions  306 H and  306 J in the global segmentation result may be merged into a single region  310 B in the integrated image based on the appearance likelihood result and the global edge detection result. The merged region  310 B may be assigned another new color. The region  306 I may remain separated from adjacent regions in the global segmentation result. 
     The region  310 C in the integrated image may correspond to the region  306 I in the global segmentation result. The plurality of regions apart from the abdominal regions that have not been labelled for the sake of brevity in the global segmentation result may be merged into the region  310 D in the integrated image. The merged region  310 D may be assigned a new color that may be different from the colors assigned to the regions  310 A to  310 C. Segmentation boundary may be achieved for the plurality of regions in the integrated image. 
     At  312 , a recolored image for the plurality of regions is shown. The regions  312 A to  312 D is in the recolored image. The regions  312 A to  312 D in the recolored image may correspond to the regions  310 A to  310 D respectively in the integrated image. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to recolor the plurality of regions in the integrated image of the test video frame with four or five colors to maximize contrast between adjacent regions of the plurality of regions and obtain distinct edges in the global edge detection result. The regions  310 A to  310 D in the integrated image may be recolored to the regions  312 A to  312 D in the recolored image respectively for enhancement of the segmentation boundary of the integrated image. All the regions in the integrated image may be recolored based on a four-color theorem. A five color theorem or the like may also be used for enhancement of the segmentation boundary of the integrated image. The recolor of the integrated image may help in another edge detection apart from the detected edges in the first global edge detection result. The recolor of the integrated image to the recolored image may increase the contrast of a boundary in the global edge detection result. 
     At  314 , a first global region boundary for localization of the abdominal organ (liver) in the test video frame is shown. The first global region boundary may be represented with different colors (for example, colored regions  314 A to  314 C). In accordance with an embodiment, the processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to derive the first global region boundary of the abdominal organ (the liver). After the coloration of the plurality of regions in the recolored image of the test video frame, distinct edges may be obtained in the first global region boundary image. Different contrast in the edges is shown by colored regions  314 A to  314 C. After coloration, the edge detection may be utilized to identify discontinuities in brightness values that may cause a sharp change in intensity values. 
     Global segmentation may be further utilized to find different regions in the test video frame, based on the pixel characteristics of different regions in the test video frame. After different regions are merged in the integrated image and recolored in the recolored image, the first global region boundary may be derived at  314 . The first global region boundary (at  314 ) may be depicted by a contour (outline) that irregularly (or discontinuously) traces a shape of the abdominal organ in the test video frame. Such contour may be further utilized to separate the abdominal organ from the background region in the test video frame. The first global region boundary (obtained at  314 ) may be achieved based on implementation of line fitting or edge descriptors-based techniques. 
       FIG. 3B  illustrates an exemplary scenario for determination of a plurality of local region boundaries from a plurality of local sub regions in the selected test video frame, in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure. Such plurality of local region boundaries may be utilized for boundary localization of an abdominal organ (for example, the liver) of a subject during surgery, e.g., hepatectomy.  FIG. 3B  is explained in conjunction with elements from  FIGS. 1, 2, and 3A . With reference to  FIG. 3B , there is shown a scenario  300 B to depict a processing pipeline for determination of a plurality of local region boundaries from a plurality of local sub regions in the selected test video frame. In  FIG. 3B , there is shown different operations  316  to  330  in the processing pipeline that may be executed along with the operations  302  to  314  described in  FIG. 3A . 
     At  316 , a local window may move around different regions in the test video frame to select a local sub region  316 A from the test video frame. The local sub region  316 A may be selected by a local window with guidance from the derived first global region boundary (estimated at  314  in  FIG. 3A ) of the abdominal organ. In accordance with an embodiment, the processor  202 A mag utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to select the plurality of local sub regions to determine a plurality of local boundaries based on the generated first global region boundary of the abdominal organ. The determination of the plurality of local region boundaries may require selection of a plurality of local windows. 
     At  318 , the local segmentation result is shown with different regions  318 A to  318 D in the local segmentation result. In accordance with an embodiment, the processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to locally segment the local sub region  316 A of the abdominal organ in the selected test video frame. The local segmentation may be executed on the local sub region  316 A to produce different regions  318 A to  318 D. The local segmentation result may provide a rough estimate of the localization of boundary of the abdominal organ. The local segmentation may be done by a suitable image segmentation technique that may be known to one skilled in the art. 
     At  320 , the local edge detection result is shown. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to generate edges of the local sub region  316 A from the local segmentation result. The local edge detection result may be derived based on the generated edges of the plurality of local sub regions  316 A from the local segmentation result. The generated edges may still come from the local segmentation of the local sub region  316 A of the abdominal organ that may be rough and coarse. However, the local segmentation may facilitate maximization of consistency between region boundary from the local segmentation result and the generated edges from the local edge detection result. In accordance with an embodiment, the generated edges of the local sub region  316 A may include a first type of edges and a second type of edges. The local edge detection result may show a lot of edges that may comprise the first type of edges and the second type of edges. The first type of edges may correspond to strong edges and the second type of edges may correspond to weak edges. 
     At  322 , the region of interest from the derived first global region boundary (at  314 ) is shown. The region of interest may be labelled with  322 A. The global region boundary has been derived at  314  in  FIG. 3A . The region of interest  322 A may be obtained by comparison of the local segmentation result and the global region boundary from  FIG. 3A . The regions  318 B and  318 C of the local segmentation result may be eliminated (at  322 ) based on the global region boundary (obtained at  314  of  FIG. 3A ). The regions  318 B and  318 C may not be associated with the abdominal organ present in the test video frame and therefore, the regions  318 A and  318 B may be eliminated. The region of interest  322 A may correspond to the region  318 A of the local segmentation result. The region of interest  322 A may be the region of interest associated with the abdominal organ (the liver) depicted in the test video frame. 
     At  324 , the edge dilation of the local sub region  316 A is shown. The dilated edge may be labelled as  324 A. In accordance with an embodiment, the processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to dilate the generated edges of the local sub region, based on the first global region boundary of the abdominal organ and the local segmentation result. The edge dilation may add pixels to the boundaries of the region of interest  322 A (obtained at  322 ). A number of pixels added or removed from the region of interest  322 A may depend on a size and a shape of a structuring element used to process the region of interest  322 A. 
     At  326 , the masking of the generated edges is shown. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to retain the first type of edges from the generated edges of the local sub region  316 A of the abdominal organ (the liver), based on a masking operation on the second type of edges using the dilated edges. The first type of edges may correspond to strong edges and the second type of edges may correspond to the weak edges. With the masking operation, the weak edges may be removed and the strong edges may be retained. However, the strong edges may include discontinuous edges as shown in the edge detection result. The edge dilation and the local edge detection result be utilized to execute the masking operation. In some cases, the masking operation may further remove some portion of dilation from the dilated edge  324 A. An indicator function may be utilized in the masking operation to indicate the location of the abdominal organ (the liver). The value of “1” for the indicator function may indicate a presence of the abdominal organ (the liver) and a “0” may indicate an absence of the abdominal organ (the liver). The edges shown in the masking operation may be taken as a point set in 2-D space and a single color space fitting may be done. The remaining part within the mask may be interpolated to get a single curve in next of interpolation. 
     At  328 , the interpolation of the edges retained after the masking operation is shown by a single curve  328 A. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to interpolate the retained first type of edges of the local sub region  316 A of the plurality of local sub regions of the abdominal organ (the liver) by the single curve  328 A. The interpolation may be done on the strong edges and may result in the single curve  328 A that may correspond to the edge of the abdominal organ. 
     At  330 , the local region boundary associated with a single color space fitting boundary  330 A is shown. In accordance with an embodiment, the processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to generate a single color space fitting boundary  330 A on the interpolated single curve  328 A for the local sub region  316 A. The local boundaries may be determined from the generated single color space fitting boundary for the local sub region  316 A of the test video frame. 
       FIG. 3C  illustrates an exemplary scenario for boundary localization in the selected test video frame for an abdominal organ of a subject, in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure.  FIG. 3C  is explained in conjunction with elements from  FIGS. 1, 2, 3A and 3B . With reference to  FIG. 3C , there is shown a scenario  300 C for boundary localization in a selected test video frame at  332 . 
     At  316 , the selected test image frame with a plurality of local windows to select local sub regions  316 A to  316 N is shown. The test video frame is shown with a plurality of local windows to select local sub regions  316 A to  316 N. In accordance with an embodiment, the processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to determine a plurality of local region boundaries for the plurality of local sub regions  316 A to  316 N of the abdominal organ (the liver) in the selected test video frame. Such determination may be done, based on a local segmentation result and a local edge detection result (as discussed in  FIG. 3B ) of each of the plurality of local sub regions  316 A to  316 N of the abdominal organ (the liver). The first global region boundary (obtained at  314 ) is shown in detail in  FIG. 3A . The plurality of local region boundaries  316 A to  316 N for the abdominal organ in the test video frame may be determined with guidance from the derived first global region boundary (at  314 ) of the abdominal organ (the liver). 
     At  332 , the processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to generate a second global region boundary  332 A, based on the determined plurality of local region boundaries and the first global region boundary, for the abdominal organ in the test video frame of the captured sequence of video frames. In accordance with an embodiment, the processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to localize the abdominal organ (the liver) within the body of the subject in the surgery, based on the generated second global region boundary for the abdominal organ (the liver). In accordance with an embodiment, the processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to overlap the generated second global region boundary  332 A for the abdominal organ (the liver) at a contour of the localized abdominal organ (the liver) in the test video frame and different test video frames that are a part of the captured sequence of video frames received as a continuous video feed from the surgical image-capture device  104 . 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to register modified intra-operative images for the abdominal organ (the liver) with pre-operative imaging data obtained from a mode different from the surgical image-capture device  104 . The modified intra-operative images may correspond to the generated second global region boundary  332 A overlapped on the localized abdominal organ in the test video frame and subsequent test video frames that are a part of the captured sequence of video frames received as a continuous video feed. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to generate instructions to enable navigation of the surgical image-capture device  104  and a surgical instrument within the body of the subject to reach to the localized abdominal organ (the liver) for a precision image-guided surgery of the localized abdominal organ (the liver). Local sub regions may be more homogeneous than global variations in the test video frame. Local sub regions may be less affected by global variations in the test video frame. A local localization by boundary generation may be computed with a maximum consistency between the local segmentation result and the local edge detection result. 
     For image processing, segmentation and edge detection are two different processes that complement each other. The segmentation may depict less accurate localization of the boundary in an image. In contrast, the edge detection may depict more accurate localization but with some false positives. The segmentation may give a rough estimate of the localization of organ boundary and the local segmentation may determine exactly where the boundary is present. Therefore, the global process may provide a range in which the boundary of the internal organ may be present and the local process may provide with the localization of the organ boundary. 
       FIGS. 4A, 4B, and 4C , collectively, illustrate a flow chart that depicts exemplary operations for boundary localization of an internal organ of a subject for providing assistance in a surgery, in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure. With reference to  FIGS. 4A, 4B, and 4C , there is shown a flowchart  400 . The flowchart  400  is described in conjunction with elements from  FIGS. 1, 2, and 3A to 3C . The method, in accordance with the flowchart  400 , may be implemented in the surgical assistive device  102 . The method starts at  402  and proceeds to  404 . 
     At  404 , a dataset with a plurality of training images associated with an internal organ of interest  112  may be stored to compute an appearance likelihood result. The memory  204  may be configured to store a dataset with a plurality of training images associated with an internal organ of interest  112 , to compute an appearance likelihood result for the internal organ of interest  112 . 
     At  406 , a sequence of video frames of one or more internal organs of a subject may be captured, based on insertion of the surgical image-capture device  104  in a body of the human subject  110 . The surgical image-capture device  104  may be configured to capture a sequence of video frames of one or more internal organs of a subject, based on insertion of the surgical image-capture device  104  in the body of the human subject  110 . 
     At  408 , a test video frame from the captured sequence of video frames may be selected, based on an area occupied by the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame. The area occupied by the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame may be greater than a threshold area. The processor  202 A may be configured to select a test video frame from the captured sequence of video frames, based on an area occupied by the internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame. 
     At  410 , an appearance likelihood of the internal organ of interest  112  may be computed, based on the plurality of training images to obtain the appearance likelihood result. The processor  202 A may be configured to compute an appearance likelihood of the internal organ of interest  112 , based on the plurality of training images to obtain the appearance likelihood result. 
     At  412 , the test video frame may be globally segmented to a plurality of regions to obtain a global segmentation result. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to globally segment the test video frame to a plurality of regions to obtain a global segmentation result. 
     At  414 , a different color may be assigned to each of the plurality of regions of the global segmentation result. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to assign a different color to each of the plurality of regions of the global segmentation result. 
     At  416 , edges of the plurality of regions may be detected in the global segmentation result to obtain a global edge detection result. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to detect edges of the plurality of regions in the global segmentation result to obtain a global edge detection result. 
     At  418 , the plurality of regions of the global segmentation result of the test video frame may be recolored with four or five colors to maximize contrast between adjacent regions of plurality of regions and obtain distinct edges in global edge detection result. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to recolor the plurality of regions of the global segmentation result of the test video frame with four or five colors to maximize contrast between adjacent regions of plurality of regions and obtain distinct edges in global edge detection result. 
     At  420 , a first global region boundary of the internal organ of interest  112  may be derived, by integration of the appearance likelihood result, the global segmentation result, and the global edge detection result associated with the internal organ of interest  112  in selected test video frame. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to derive a first global region boundary of the internal organ of interest  112 , by integration of the appearance likelihood result, the global segmentation result, and the global edge detection result associated with the internal organ of interest  112  in selected test video frame. 
     At  422 , a plurality of local sub regions may be selected to determine plurality of local boundaries based on generated first global region boundary of internal organ of interest  112 . The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to select a plurality of local sub regions to determine a plurality of local boundaries based on the generated first global region boundary of the internal organ of interest  112 . 
     At  424 , the plurality of local sub regions of internal organ of interest  112  in selected test video frame may be locally segmented to obtain a local segmentation result. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to locally segment the plurality of local sub regions of internal organ of interest  112  in selected test video frame to obtain a local segmentation result. 
     At  426 , edges of the plurality of local sub regions may be generated from the local segmentation result to obtain a local edge detection result. The generated edges of plurality of local sub regions may comprise a first type of edges and a second type of edges. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to generate edges for the plurality of local sub regions from the local segmentation result to obtain a local edge detection result. 
     At  428 , the generated edges of the plurality of local sub regions may be dilated, based on the first global region boundary of the internal organ of interest  112  and the local segmentation result. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to dilate the generated edges of the plurality of local sub regions, based on the first global region boundary of the internal organ of interest  112  and the local segmentation result. 
     At  430 , the first type of edges may be retained from the generated edges of the plurality of the local sub regions of the internal organ of interest  112 , based on a masking operation on the second type of edges using dilated edges. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to retain the first type of edges from the generated edges of the plurality of the local sub regions of the internal organ of interest  112 , based on a masking operation on the second type of edges using dilated edges. 
     At  432 , the retained first type of edges of each local sub region of the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest  112  may be interpolated into a single curve. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to interpolate the retained first type of edges of each local sub region of the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest  112  into a single curve. 
     At  434 , the single color space fitting boundary may be generated on the interpolated single curve for each local sub region of the plurality of local sub regions. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to generate the single color space fitting boundary on the interpolated single curve for each local sub region of the plurality of local sub regions. 
     At  436 , a plurality of local region boundaries may be determined for the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest  112  in the selected test video frame, based on the local segmentation result and the local edge detection result of each of plurality of local sub regions of internal organ of interest  112 . The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to determine a plurality of local region boundaries for the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest  112  in the selected test video frame, based on the local segmentation result and the local edge detection result of each of plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest  112 . 
     At  438 , a second global region boundary may be generated for internal organ of interest  112  in test video frame of captured sequence of video frames, based on the determined plurality of local region boundaries and the first global region boundary. The processor  202 A may utilize the internal organ boundary localizer  202 B to generate a second global region boundary for the internal organ of interest  112  in test video frame of captured sequence of video frames, based on the determined plurality of local region boundaries and the first global region boundary. 
     At  440 , a modified intra-operative images for internal organ of interest  112  may be registered with pre-operative imaging data obtained from mode different from surgical image-capture device  104 . The modified intra-operative images may correspond to the generated second global region boundary overlapped on localized internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame and subsequent test video frames that are part of the captured sequence of video frames received as continuous video feed. The organ boundary localization circuit  202  may be configured to register a modified intra-operative images for internal organ of interest  112  with pre-operative imaging data obtained from mode different from surgical image-capture device  104 . 
     At  442 , the internal organ of interest  112  may be localized within a body of human subject  110  during surgery based on the generated second global region boundary for internal organ of interest  112 . The organ boundary localization circuit  202  may be configured to localize the internal organ of interest  112  within a body of human subject  110  during surgery based on the generated second global region boundary for internal organ of interest  112 . 
     At  444 , the generated second global region boundary for internal organ of interest  112  may be overlapped at contour of the localized internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame and different test video frames that may be part of captured sequence of video frames received as continuous video feed from surgical image-capture device  104 . The organ boundary localization circuit  202  may be configured to overlap the generated second global region boundary for internal organ of interest  112  at a contour of the localized internal organ of interest  112  in the test video frame and different test video frames that may be part of captured sequence of video frames received as continuous video feed from surgical image-capture device  104 . 
     At  446 , instructions may be generated to enable navigation of the surgical image-capture device  104  and the surgical instrument within body of human subject  110  to reach to the localized internal organ of interest  112  for precision image-guided surgery of localized internal organ of interest  112 . The processor  202 A may be configured to generate instructions to enable navigation of the surgical image-capture device  104  and the surgical instrument within body of human subject  110  to reach to the localized internal organ of interest  112  for precision image-guided surgery of localized internal organ of interest  112 . Control passes to end. 
     In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, the surgical assistive device  102  for boundary localization of an internal organ of a subject for providing assistance during surgery may comprise the surgical assistive device  102  ( FIG. 1 ). The surgical assistive device  102  may comprise one or more circuits, such as the organ boundary localization circuit  202  ( FIG. 2 ). The organ boundary localization circuit  202  may be configured to select a test video frame from the captured sequence of video frames. The organ boundary localization circuit  202  may be further configured to derive a first global region boundary of an internal organ of interest by integration of an appearance likelihood result, a global segmentation result, and a global edge detection result associated with the internal organ of interest in the selected test video frame. The organ boundary localization circuit  202  may be further configured to determine a plurality of local region boundaries for a plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest in the selected test video frame. The local region boundaries may be determined based on a local segmentation result and a local edge detection result of each of the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest. The plurality of local region boundaries may be determined with guidance from the derived first global region boundary of the internal organ of interest. The organ boundary localization circuit  202  may be further configured to generate, based on the determined plurality of local region boundaries and the first global region boundary, a second global region boundary for the internal organ of interest in the test video frame of the captured sequence of video frames. The organ boundary localization circuit  202  may be configured to localize the internal organ of interest within the body of the subject in the surgery, based on the generated second global region boundary for the internal organ of interest. In accordance with an embodiment, the internal organ of interest is an abdominal organ. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to receive the captured sequence of video frames of the one or more internal organs of the subject from the surgical image-capture device  104 . In accordance with an embodiment, the test video frame may be selected from the captured sequence of video frames based on an area occupied by the internal organ of interest in the test video frame. In accordance with an embodiment, the area occupied by the internal organ of interest in the test video frame may be greater than a threshold area. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to receive a plurality of training images of the internal organ of interest from a medical data server. In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to compute an appearance likelihood of the internal organ of interest, based on the plurality of training images, the appearance likelihood result may be generated by the computation of the appearance likelihood. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to globally segment the test video frame to a plurality of regions to obtain the global segmentation result. In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to assign a different color to each of the plurality of regions. In accordance with an embodiment, the global segmentation result may be generated by the global segmentation of the test video frame. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to detect edges of the plurality of regions in the global segmentation result. In accordance with an embodiment, the global edge detection result may be generated by the detection of the edges of the plurality of regions. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to recolor the plurality of regions in the global segmentation result of the test video frame with four or five colors to maximize contrast between adjacent regions of the plurality of regions and obtain distinct edges in the global edge detection result. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to select the plurality of local sub regions to determine the plurality of local boundaries based on the generated first global region boundary of the internal organ of interest. In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to locally segment the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest in the selected test video frame. In accordance with an embodiment, the local segmentation result may be generated by the local segmentation of the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest. In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to generate edges of the plurality of local sub regions from the local segmentation result. In accordance with an embodiment, the local edge detection result may be derived by the generated edges of the plurality of local sub regions from the local segmentation result. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to dilate the generated edges of the plurality of local sub regions based on the first global region boundary of the internal organ of interest and the local segmentation result. In accordance with an embodiment, the generated edges of the plurality of local sub regions may comprise a first type of edges and a second type of edges. In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to retain the first type of edges from the generated edges of the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest based on a masking operation on the second type of edges using the dilated edges. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to interpolate the retained first type of edges of each local sub region of the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest into a single curve. In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to generate a single color space fitting boundary on the interpolated single curve for each local sub region of the plurality of local sub regions. In accordance with an embodiment, the plurality of local boundaries may be determined from the generated single color space fitting boundary for each local sub region of the plurality of local sub regions in the test video frame. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to overlap the generated second global region boundary for the internal organ of interest at a contour of the localized internal organ of interest in the test video frame and different test video frames that are a part of the captured sequence of video frames received as a continuous video feed from the surgical image-capture device. In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to register modified intra-operative images for the internal organ of interest with pre-operative imaging data obtained from a mode different from the surgical image-capture device. In accordance with an embodiment, the modified intra-operative images may correspond to the generated second global region boundary overlapped on the localized internal organ of interest in the test video frame and subsequent test video frames that are a part of the captured sequence of video frames received as a continuous video feed. 
     In accordance with an embodiment, the organ boundary localization circuit may be further configured to generate instructions to enable navigation of the surgical image-capture device and a surgical instrument within the body of the subject to reach to the localized internal organ of interest for a precision image-guided surgery of the localized internal organ of interest. 
     Various embodiments of the disclosure may provide a non-transitory computer readable medium and/or storage medium, and/or a non-transitory machine readable medium and/or storage medium with a machine code and/or a set of instructions stored thereon and executable by a machine and/or a computer to provide assistance in a surgery. The set of instructions in the surgical assistive device  102  may cause the machine and/or computer to perform the steps that comprise reception of the plurality of training images of the internal organ of interest from the medical data server  106  ( FIG. 1 ). A sequence of video frames of one or more internal organs of subject may be captured based on insertion of surgical image-capture device in a body of subject. A first global region boundary of an internal organ of interest may be derived by integration of an appearance likelihood result, a global segmentation result, and a global edge detection result associated with the internal organ of interest in the selected test video frame. A plurality of local region boundaries may be determined for a plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest in the selected test video frame, based on a local segmentation result and a local edge detection result of each of the plurality of local sub regions of the internal organ of interest. Based on the determined plurality of local region boundaries and the first global region boundary, a second global region boundary for the internal organ of interest may be generated in the test video frame of the captured sequence of video frames. The internal organ of interest may be localized within the body of the subject in the surgery, based on the generated second global region boundary for the internal organ of interest. 
     The present disclosure may be realized in hardware, or a combination of hardware and software. The present disclosure may be realized in a centralized fashion, in at least one computer system, or in a distributed fashion, where different elements may be spread across several interconnected computer systems. A computer system or other apparatus adapted to carry out the methods described herein may be suited. A combination of hardware and software may be a general-purpose computer system with a computer program that, when loaded and executed, may control the computer system such that it carries out the methods described herein. The present disclosure may be realized in hardware that comprises a portion of an integrated circuit that also performs other functions. 
     The present disclosure may also be embedded in a computer program product, which comprises all the features that enable the implementation of the methods described herein, and which when loaded in a computer system is able to carry out these methods. Computer program, in the present context, means any expression, in any language, code or notation, of a set of instructions intended to cause a system that has an information processing capability to perform a particular function either directly, or after either or both of the following: a) conversion to another language, code or notation; b) reproduction in a different material form. 
     While the present disclosure has been described with reference to certain embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes may be made and equivalents may be substituted without departure from the scope of the present disclosure. In addition, many modifications may be made to adapt a particular situation or material to the teachings of the present disclosure without departure from its scope. Therefore, it is intended that the present disclosure not be limited to the particular embodiment disclosed, but that the present disclosure will include all embodiments that falls within the scope of the appended claims.