Methods and apparatus for displaying enhanced imaging data on a clinical image
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1. A method comprising:
- desaturating, by a processor in a surgical system, a visible color image of tissue into a desaturated image, the visible color image being a reflected white light image captured from visible electro-magnetic spectrum light, the visible electro-magnetic spectrum light being from a surgical site in a patient;
coloring, by the processor, an enhanced image representing data captured from the surgical site with a visible color to form a color enhanced image, the data being captured from light outside the visible electro-magnetic spectrum;
superimposing, by the processor, the color enhanced image and the desaturated image together to form a blended image of the surgical site for display on a display device.
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Abstract
In one embodiment of the invention, an apparatus includes a display device. The display device displays a desaturated image of tissue captured in the visible electro-magnetic (EM) spectrum from a body cavity; and a first color enhanced image combined with the desaturated image. The first color enhanced image represents the first data captured from the body cavity outside the visible electromagnetic spectrum. The relative brightness between the desaturated image and the first color enhanced image is set to emphasize the first data over the tissue captured in the visible electromagnetic spectrum to provide improved information content.
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31 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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desaturating, by a processor in a surgical system, a visible color image of tissue into a desaturated image, the visible color image being a reflected white light image captured from visible electro-magnetic spectrum light, the visible electro-magnetic spectrum light being from a surgical site in a patient; coloring, by the processor, an enhanced image representing data captured from the surgical site with a visible color to form a color enhanced image, the data being captured from light outside the visible electro-magnetic spectrum; superimposing, by the processor, the color enhanced image and the desaturated image together to form a blended image of the surgical site for display on a display device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An apparatus comprising:
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an image processor, the image processor being configured to desaturate a captured visible color image into a desaturated image, the visible color image being a reflected white light image captured from visible electro-magnetic spectrum light, the visible electro-magnetic spectrum light being from a surgical site in a patient, the image processor being configured to color a first enhanced image representing first captured data with a first visible color to form a first enhanced color image, the first captured data being first data from the surgical site, and the first data being outside the visible electro-magnetic spectrum; and a display device coupled to the image processor, the display device being configured to display a superpostion of the desaturated image and the color enhanced image together to form a blended image of the surgical site. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A machine readable media have stored thereon instructions that when executed by a machine causes the machine to perform operations comprising:
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reducing color in color images to form desaturated images, the color images being of tissue in a surgical site in a patient, and the color images being reflected white light images in the visible electro-magnetic spectrum; making non-visible tissue feature images into color enhanced images, the tissue feature being in the surgical site; and superimposing the color enhanced images and the desaturated images together to form blended images for display on at least one display device. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25)
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26. A method comprising:
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capturing a visible color image of a surgical site illuminated by visible light, the visible color image being a reflected white light image captured from visible electro-magnetic spectrum light; desaturating the visible color image of the surgical site into a visible gray image; capturing a fluorescent image of fluorescing tissue in the surgical site, wherein the fluorescing tissue appears in a visible color; and generating a displayable image comprising a superimposition of the visible fluorescent image and the visible gray image together to form a blended image of the surgical site. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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