Patent ID: 8886577

Claim:
A method for communicating surgical information, comprising: receiving, during a procedure, first data from one or more sensors coupled to one or more tools; generating a virtual model of a four-dimensional virtual real-time space including a representation of a first vital entity, wherein a first tool is mapped, based on a portion of the first data, in the virtual real-time space in relation to at least the representation of the first vital entity; determining, based on the first vital entity, at least one probabilistic model, from a plurality of probabilistic models, that applies to the first data and the four-dimensional virtual real-time space; applying the determined at least one probabilistic model to obtain: a prediction of a movement of the first tool in the procedure in relation to the representation of the first vital entity, and a prediction score, wherein the prediction score indicates either a severity of a warning or an estimated reliability of the prediction of the movement of the first tool in the procedure; outputting an indication of the prediction score; receiving, from one or more sensors, additional data collected during the procedure indicating an actual outcome of the movement of the first tool in the procedure; and automatically updating, based at least in part on the actual outcome of the movement of the first tool in the procedure, one or more of the determined at least one probabilistic model.