Mazor Robotics Ltd.
CROSS-MODALITY PLANNING USING FEATURE DETECTION

Abstract:

Systems and methods for planning the position of surgical hardware to be robotically implanted in a subject. The system extracts information about the planned position of hardware from an operative plan based on preoperative images, and converts this information into mathematical vectors. Intraoperatively, at least one three-dimensional scan of the operative site is obtained. The intraoperative images are processed by image analysis, to which are applied artificial intelligence algorithms for feature identification. The vectors derived from the preoperative plan are superimposed on identified anatomical features from the processed intraoperative images. The surgical plan can then be updated intraoperatively, taking into account any shift in position of the anatomical features between the preoperative images and the intraoperative images, prior to robotic insertion of the hardware.