SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMBINED DISPLAY OF MEDICAL DEVICES

• US 20090023993A1
• Filed: 07/18/2008
• Published: 01/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Given Imaging Limited (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Given Imaging Limited (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Gerber, Jeremy Pinchas, Horn, Eli, Gilad, Zvika, Rubey, Kevin, Skala, Michael, Davidson, Tal, Levy, Daphna
• Application Number:
  US12/175,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20090023993A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/109
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00009 of image signals during a use of endoscope
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0005 combining images e.g. side-by-side, superimposed or tiled
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/273 for the upper alimentary canal, e.g. oesophagoscopes, gastroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/31 for the rectum, e.g. proctoscopes, sigmoidoscopes , colonoscopes

Abstract

A method and system to display combined information about an in-vivo lumen using several in vivo devices as data sources. A method is provided for interfacing different in vivo devices and viewing integrated results, on a combined display, by receiving in vivo data of at least two in vivo sensing procedures and analyzing the in vivo data to produce the combined representation. The combined representation may be displayed to a user during the course of an in vivo sensing procedure, and the in vivo data of an in vivo sensing procedure may be received and/or analyzed to produce a combined representation in real time.

Claims

1. A method for combined display of in vivo sensing procedures comprising:

receiving in vivo data of at least two in vivo sensing procedures, said data obtained using at least two different modalities;

analyzing said data to produce a combined display; and

displaying the combined display to a user.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the combined display is displayed to a user during the course of an in vivo sensing procedure.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving the data of at least one of the in vivo sensing procedures is in real time.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein one of the at least two in vivo sensing procedures is a capsule endoscope imaging procedure.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

identifying a location of the capsule endoscope; and

displaying the identified location in the combined display.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying pathology information by analysis of said data; and

displaying the pathology information in the combined display.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

correlating in vivo data streams obtained using the at least two different modalities.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

providing a graph of changes to compare current and previous procedures.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

correlating image colors of the different modalities for the combined display.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

inserting a capsule endoscope during a double balloon endoscope procedure.

11. A system for displaying medical data combined from at least two in vivo modalities, comprising:

a combined data processing unit to combine data from said at least two in vivo modalities; and

a combined user interface to display said combined data.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein one of the at least two modalities comprises a capsule endoscope.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein one of the at least two modalities comprises a double balloon endoscope.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the endoscope comprises additional buttons to activate the combined user interface.

15. The system of claim 11, further comprising an image processor to automatically correlate image streams from said at least two in vivo modalities;

wherein said at least two in vivo modalities comprise imaging devices.

16. The system of claim 11, further comprising a medical case management tool to control the combined display.