Patent Document ID: 9844319
Application ID: 14837341
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An epiretinal membrane visualization system, comprising: an OCT system operable to generate an OCT image of a region of a patient's eye, the region of the patient's eye including an epiretinal membrane (ERM); an image processing unit operable to: process the OCT image to identify the ERM by differentiating the ERM from other structures within the region of the patient's eye; and generate an ERM map depicting one or more characteristics of the identified ERM, the one or more characteristics including at least a location of a portion of the ERM within the region of the patient's eye; an imaging unit operable to generate a live video image of the region of the patient's eye during a surgical procedure; and a display operable to display the ERM map as an overlay on the image generated by the imaging unit, wherein the ERM map comprises a static ERM map registered and overlaid on the live video image.