Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an Interaction Engine that generates within a unified three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space: (i) a 3D virtual medical model positioned according to a model pose and (ii) at least one virtual object associated with a physical instrument, the physical instrument having a current instrument pose based at least on current coordinates of one or more fiducial markers disposed on the physical instrument, in the unified 3D coordinate space. The Interaction Engine renders an Augmented Reality (AR) display that includes concurrent display of the 3D virtual medical model and the virtual object. The Interaction Engine modifies the AR display according to a virtual interaction related to the virtual object that incorporates the change of the physical instrument pose.

Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an Interaction Engine that generates within a unified three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space: (i) a 3D virtual medical model positioned according to a model pose and (ii) at least one virtual object associated with a physical instrument, the physical instrument having a current instrument pose based at least on current coordinates of one or more fiducial markers disposed on the physical instrument, in the unified 3D coordinate space. The Interaction Engine renders an Augmented Reality (AR) display that includes concurrent display of the 3D virtual medical model and the virtual object. The Interaction Engine modifies the AR display according to a virtual interaction related to the virtual object that incorporates the change of the physical instrument pose.

Abstract: A surgical fiducial marker unit can include a main body, fiducial marker sites, and adhesive layer. The main body can have top and bottom surfaces, length, width, and thickness that is substantially less than the length and width. The fiducial marker sites can host surgical fiducial markers suitable for use with a separate augmented reality system and can be distributed across the main body top surface at fixed positions relative to each other to form a fixed positional arrangement that is asymmetrical. The adhesive layer can be disposed on the bottom surface of the main body and can securely adhere the main body to a patient during a surgical procedure. The surgical fiducial marker unit can include the surgical fiducial markers, each of which can define a circular disk having a flat upper surface. Each fiducial marker site can include a socket that receives a circular disk fiducial marker therein.

Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to a Detached Visualization Engine for detecting coordinates for a target portion of a physical anatomy in a unified three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space. The Detached Visualization Engine renders an overlay visualization of a display of medical data in alignment with the target portion of the physical anatomy. The Detached Visualization Engine applies an offset to coordinates of the overlay visualization. In some embodiments, the Detached Visualization Engine determines a secondary 3D coordinate space based on applying the offset to the entire unified 3D coordinate space. The Detached Visualization Engine renders a detached visualization according to the secondary 3D coordinate space.

Abstract: A mechanical apparatus levelling mechanism has a base (10), an adjusting screw rod (20), an adjusting plate (30) and a support plate (40). The adjusting screw rod penetrates into the adjusting plate in an axial direction and is connected to the base. The adjusting plate is located on the base; the support plate is mounted at a top end of the adjusting screw rod and is located above the adjusting plate; and the adjusting plate rotates to drive the adjusting screw rod to rotate, such that the support plate is adjusted vertically. This simplifies the operation procedure, improving the assembly accuracy and improving the working efficiency. The method is simple to operate. These adjusting mechanisms are convenient to move and simple to adjust, are time-saving and labour-saving, and have adjustment dimensions that can be quantified. Moreover, the installation is simple, and the adjusting mechanisms themselves can be reused.

Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to a Trace Alignment Engine that captures a plurality of coordinates identifying respective locations of a physical surface. Based on the captured plurality of coordinates, the Trace Alignment Engine determines a region(s) of an Augmented Reality (AR) rendering of the physical surface that represents the respective locations. The Trace Alignment Engine determines a mapping of the region of the AR rendering of the physical surface to the respective locations. Based on the mapping, the Trace Alignment Engine displays the AR rendering of the physical surface as a virtual overlay in alignment with the physical surface with concurrent display of a traced line.

Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to a Buffer Zone Engine renders a dynamic navigation guide virtual object (“dynamic navigation guide”). The Buffer Zone Engine detects changes in at least one of an instrument angular distance and an instrument position of a physical instrument in a unified three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space. The Buffer Zone Engine determines the detected change(s) corresponds to a threshold amount of difference away from a proper alignment of the physical instrument, the proper alignment representing alignment of the physical instrument with a virtual trajectory towards a target point. The Buffer Zone Engine triggers display of a first visual characteristic of the dynamic navigation guide in response to determining the detected change(s) corresponds to the threshold amount of difference away from the proper alignment.

Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to a Calibration Engine for detecting first coordinates for a first physical instrument that correspond to poses of the first physical instrument in a unified three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space. The Calibration Engine detects second coordinates for a second physical instrument that correspond to poses of the second physical instrument in the unified 3D coordinate space. Based on the detected first and second coordinates, the Calibration Engine determines a distance from a tip of the first physical instrument to a predefined calibration location of the second physical instrument.

Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to a Registration Engine that identifies a region of interest from an infrared image portraying a target portion of a physical anatomy in a current physical pose. The Registration Engine generates a 3D point cloud of the region of interest. The Registration Engine identifies region of interest isosurface data by detecting matches between isosurface data and the 3D point cloud. The Registration Engine determines display location, at the target portion of the physical anatomy, for the region of interest isosurface data. The Registration Engine renders an Augmented Reality (AR) display of medical data with respect to the display location.

Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to Registration Engine. The Registration Engine tracks positions of a fiducial marker relative to positions of an Augmented Reality (AR) headset device worn by a user. The Registration Engine receives respective registration landmarks that correspond with locations of a physical region of a patient's anatomy and the tracked positions of the fiducial marker. The Registration Engine generates an AR display of medical data at the AR headset device in alignment with the physical region of a patient's anatomy that corresponds with the respective registration landmarks.

Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an Interaction Engine. According to various embodiments, Interaction Engine generates within a unified three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space, a virtual 3D medical model positioned according to a model pose. The Interaction Engine receives video data from a plurality of video sources. The Interaction Engine renders a first Augmented Reality (AR) display that includes concurrent display of the virtual 3D medical model and visualization of at least a portion of video data from a first video source. The Interaction Engine renders a second Augmented Reality (AR) display that includes concurrent display of the virtual 3D medical model and visualization of at least a portion of video data from a second video source.

Abstract: Various embodiments of a physical instrument are described herein. The physical instrument includes a main body with a top portion, a bottom portion, a first side and a second side. A first reflector and a first off-set reflector are each disposed on the top portion. The first reflector comprises a center region in alignment with a central axis of the main body, the central axis running from a first terminal end of the main body to a second terminal end of the main body. The first off-set reflector comprises a center region positioned according to a misalignment with the central axis of the main body. The first side includes an indentation and the second side includes a portion of a grip region with one or more grip ridges.

Abstract: A surgical catheter snap tool can include an elongated main body defining a longitudinal axis and having a front end, a back end, a top surface, first and second side surfaces, and a bottom surface. The elongated main body can include fiducial marker site(s) configured to host fiducial marker(s) at the top surface, a grip region at the first side surface, and a longitudinal groove oriented along the longitudinal axis at the bottom surface and extending from the front end to the back end. The longitudinal groove can be configured to snap onto and hold a surgical catheter therein. The tool can also include arm(s) extending laterally from the elongated main body that can have additional fiducial marker site(s). An overall system can include the surgical catheter snap tool, the fiducial markers, the surgical catheter, and/or a stylet slidably inserted within the surgical catheter.

Abstract: A plastic keypad with data entry elements and at least one display element is protected from electrostatic discharge by an assembly having an overlay substrate on which an electrically-conductive arrangement is disposed. The overlay substrate has a top side and a back side with a precisely-positioned vias formed through the substrate. A top surface of the top side is a layer of a conductive polymer. The back side is printed with at least one layer of color ink that depict a plurality of alpha-numerical and pictorial elements of the keypad. The electrically-conductive arrangement is disposed on the overlay substrate to collect electrostatic charges on the top side, transfer the electrostatic charges to the back side through the plurality of vias and drain the transferred electrostatic charges to a ground.

Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an Interaction Engine that generates within a unified three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space: (i) a 3D virtual medical model positioned according to a model pose and (ii) at least one virtual object associated with a physical instrument, the physical instrument having a current instrument pose based at least on current coordinates of one or more fiducial markers disposed on the physical instrument, in the unified 3D coordinate space. The Interaction Engine renders an Augmented Reality (AR) display that includes concurrent display of the 3D virtual medical model and the virtual object. The Interaction Engine modifies the AR display according to a virtual interaction related to the virtual object that incorporates the change of the physical instrument pose.

Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an Interaction Engine. According to various embodiments, Interaction Engine generates within a unified three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space, a virtual 3D medical model positioned according to a model pose. The Interaction Engine receives video data from a plurality of video sources. The Interaction Engine renders a first Augmented Reality (AR) display that includes concurrent display of the virtual 3D medical model and visualization of at least a portion of video data from a first video source. The Interaction Engine renders a second Augmented Reality (AR) display that includes concurrent display of the virtual 3D medical model and visualization of at least a portion of video data from a second video source.

Abstract: A mechanical apparatus levelling mechanism has a base (10), an adjusting screw rod (20), an adjusting plate (30) and a support plate (40). The adjusting screw rod penetrates into the adjusting plate in an axial direction and is connected to the base. The adjusting plate is located on the base; the support plate is mounted at a top end of the adjusting screw rod and is located above the adjusting plate; and the adjusting plate rotates to drive the adjusting screw rod to rotate, such that the support plate is adjusted vertically. This simplifies the operation procedure, improving the assembly accuracy and improving the working efficiency. The method is simple to operate. These adjusting mechanisms are convenient to move and simple to adjust, are time-saving and labour-saving, and have adjustment dimensions that can be quantified. Moreover, the installation is simple, and the adjusting mechanisms themselves can be reused.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of inland vessel identification and ranging technology, and discloses a method, system, medium, equipment and terminal for identifying and ranging inland vessels. In the stage of vessel identification, based on the classical YOLO-V4 network model, the MobileNetV1 network is used to replace the feature extraction network CSPDarknet53 of the YOLO-V4 model; In the stage of vessel ranging, a binocular stereo vision ranging model is established, and the FSRCNN is used for super-resolution reconstruction of the original image pairs to enhance the vessel feature information; the ORB algorithm is used to achieve feature detection and matching at the sub-pixel level to obtain the parallax value between image pairs, and the depth information of the vessel target is obtained by triangulation principle and coordinate conversion.

Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for an artificial intelligence work center for ERP data. One example method includes receiving scenario and model settings for an artificial intelligence model for a predictive scenario. A copy of the dataset is processed based on settings to generate a prepared dataset that is provided with the settings to a predictive analytical library. A trained model trained and evaluation data for the trained model is received from the predictive analytical library. A request is received to generate a prediction for the predictive scenario for a target field for a record of the dataset. The record of the dataset is provided to the trained model and a prediction for the target field for the record the dataset is received from the model. The prediction is included for presentation in a user interface that displays information from the dataset.