Patent Document ID: 10056012
Application ID: 14402746
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A modeling system for enabling a user to perform a simulated medical procedure, said system comprising: one or more computers; a display for displaying images to the user; a database for storing physical characteristics of the tissues of a particular patient; an image generator using one or more of said computers for executing software for generating a dynamic realistic image of the tissues of the particular patient for displaying on said display, wherein said realistic image of the tissues is provided showing an appearance including shadowing and textures indicative of the tissues of the particular patient; a database comprising a user tool library for providing a plurality of user tool models of actual user tools used in medical procedures; a user interface for accepting inputs from the user for selecting one of the user tool models; a user tool generator using one or more of said computers for executing software for generating a realistic tool image of the selected user tool model for displaying on said display; a user interface for accepting inputs from the user, said inputs for dynamically manipulating said selected user tool image for dynamically interacting with said realistic image of the tissues during the simulated medical procedure for display to the user on said display in real-time; and a user interface providing a tool to adjust the dynamic image of the tissues displayed on said display by adding or modifying features of said tissues for updating the display of tissues to compensate for anatomical structures that are in the actual biological tissue of the particular patient but are missing from the dynamic image of tissues originally displayed such that the dynamic image of tissues displayed are subsequently displayed on the display as integrated tissue with the added or modified features integrated with the dynamic image of the tissues originally displayed, wherein dynamic interaction between the user tool image and the image of the tissues, as added or modified, is displayed on said display providing realistic visual features exhibiting realistic mechanical interactions in the tissues including the added or modified tissues, said mechanical interactions based on the stored physical characteristics of the the tissues originally displayed.