Abstract: The invention relates to a medical imaging device (10), comprising: a spatially and spectrally resolving image acquisition unit (12) which comprises at least one optical system (14) and at least one image acquisition sensor system (16) coupled to the optical system (14), which are configured to generate image data of an object region (18) which comprise spatial and spectral information; an image analysis unit (20) which is configured to create an analysis of the image data which is based on spatial and spectral information, wherein the analysis comprises at least one evaluation which comprises at least one evaluation parameter which relates to an object subregion (22) of the object region (18); an assessment unit (24) which is configured to generate, based on the analysis and on the basis of information relating to a diagnostic and/or therapeutic activity that is to be carried out and/or has been carried out, an assessment of an attribute of the object subregion (22) relevant to the diagnostic and/or therapeu

Abstract: Method for providing information by marking instruments for use in endoscopic procedures, by means of which, on the one hand, details of the respective instruments can be identified and, on the other hand, calibrations such as spectral calibrations for white balance or geometric calibrations for measurements, can be carried out.

Abstract: A method for calibrating a medical imaging device is provided. The medical imaging device may be an endoscope system or an exoscope system. The medical imaging device includes an optical system with optics and an imaging sensor for capturing an image of a viewing region, and image information of the image being subject to a spectral deviation as a result of an internal and/or external influence, as a result of the optical system, lighting and/or an ambient condition, said method having multiple steps. A medical imaging device, in particular a medical endoscope or a medical exoscope incorporating the method is also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medical imaging device, comprising: an illumination unit having a light source, which is designed to provide illumination light for illuminating an object to be imaged; an image capturing unit, which is designed to take at least one calibration image of the object to be imaged and to take at least one object image of the object to be imaged; and an image correction unit. The image correction unit is designed to: determine depth information from the calibration image; determine a correction for the object image, wherein the correction comprises taking into account a location dependency, in particular a distance dependency, a light intensity of illumination light and/or a distance dependency of a light intensity of object light according to the depth information; and generate a corrected object image according to the correction. Also disclosed are an imaging method, program code, and corresponding computer product.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medical imaging device (10), comprising: a spatially and spectrally resolving image acquisition unit (12) which comprises at least one optical system (14) and at least one image acquisition sensor system (16) coupled to the optical system (14), which are configured to generate image data of an object region (18) which comprise spatial and spectral information; an image analysis unit (20) which is configured to create an analysis of the image data which is based on spatial and spectral information, wherein the analysis comprises at least one evaluation which comprises at least one evaluation parameter which relates to an object subregion (22) of the object region (18); an assessment unit (24) which is configured to generate, based on the analysis and on the basis of information relating to a diagnostic and/or therapeutic activity that is to be carried out and/or has been carried out, an assessment of an attribute of the object subregion (22) relevant to the diagnostic and/or therapeu

Abstract: The invention relates to a medical device (100) and to a method for examining an organic tissue. According to the invention, a reference tissue section (11) is defined, thereby simultaneously defining a reference tissue type. For this reference tissue section (11) a characteristic distribution of multispectral intensity profiles is detected. For a tissue region to be examined multispectral intensity profiles are detected. Tissue sections of the tissue region of interest are associated with the reference tissue types on the basis of the intensity profiles and the characteristic distributions, for example on the basis of a similarity.

Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination device (12), in particular for providing illumination light for an imaging unit (14) such as an endoscope, exoscope and/or microscope, comprising: an optical interface (16) for the optical connection of an imaging unit (14); and an illumination unit (18) that is designed to provide illumination light to the optical interface (16). The invention also relates to an imaging device (10), in particular a medical imaging device, in particular an endoscopic and/or exoscopic and/or microscopic imaging device, comprising: an illumination device (12) having an optical interface (16) and an illumination unit (18) for providing illumination light for an imaging unit (14); an imaging unit (14), which can be connected to the optical interface (16) of the illumination device (12); and a controller (66), which is configured to automatically match an operating state of the imaging unit (14) and an illumination mode of the illumination unit (18) to one another.

Abstract: A measuring system for checking a measured-image state and/or a calibration quality for a stereo measured image, comprising: a first image capturing apparatus; a second image capturing apparatus spaced apart from the first image capturing apparatus; an output apparatus; and an evaluation apparatus designed to generate a stereo measured image from the at least first measured image and the at least second measured image by way of stereo reconstruction; wherein the evaluation apparatus is designed to check a measured-image state and/or to check the calibration quality of the stereo measured image and, should the at least one capturing defect overshoot or undershoot a predetermined threshold value, to transmit a first alert to the output device, and/or, should the calibration quality overshoot or undershoot a predetermined quality limit value, to transmit a second alert to the output device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medical device (100) and to a method for examining an organic tissue. According to the invention, a reference tissue section (11) is defined, thereby simultaneously defining a reference tissue type. For this reference tissue section (11) a characteristic distribution of multispectral intensity profiles is detected. For a tissue region to be examined multispectral intensity profiles are detected. Tissue sections of the tissue region of interest are associated with the reference tissue types on the basis of the intensity profiles and the characteristic distributions, for example on the basis of a similarity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medical imaging device (10), comprising: a spatially and spectrally resolving image acquisition unit (12), which comprises at least one optical system (14) and at least one image acquisition sensor system (16) coupled to the optical system, which are designed to perform an image acquisition of an image region (18), in the course of which spatially and spectrally resolved image data are generated which comprise both spatial and spectral information; an evaluation unit (20), which is designed to perform an analysis of the spatially and spectrally resolved image data that is based on spatial and spectral information and based on at least one analysis parameter calculated from the spatially and spectrally resolved image data; a fault detection unit (22), which is designed to detect the presence of a fault in the course of the image acquisition, independently of the analysis of the image data and the calculated analysis parameter, and to determine a fault state of the image acquisition;

Abstract: The invention relates to a medical imaging device (10), comprising: a spatially and spectrally resolving image acquisition unit (12) which comprises at least one optical system (14) and at least one image acquisition sensor system (16) coupled to the optical system (14), which are configured to generate image data of an object region (18) which comprise spatial and spectral information; an image analysis unit (20) which is configured to create an analysis of the image data which is based on spatial and spectral information, wherein the analysis comprises at least one evaluation which comprises at least one evaluation parameter which relates to an object subregion (22) of the object region (18); an assessment unit (24) which is configured to generate, based on the analysis and on the basis of information relating to a diagnostic and/or therapeutic activity that is to be carried out and/or has been carried out, an assessment of an attribute of the object subregion (22) relevant to the diagnostic and/or therapeu

Abstract: A method for correcting a position of a measurement point in an endoscopic and/or exoscopic and/or microscopic measurement image, at least comprising the steps of: capturing a first measurement image of at least one movable measurement object; determining the at least one measurement point in relation to the at least one movable measurement object in the first measurement image; capturing at least one second measurement image, following the first measurement image in time, of the at least one movable measurement object; calculating a position displacement vector between the at least one measurement point in the first measurement image and an image point, corresponding to the at least one measurement point, in the second measurement image; and correcting a position of the at least one measurement point determined in relation to the first measurement image, in the second measurement image on the basis of the calculated position displacement vector.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment relates to a measuring method (50) and to a measuring device (10) in order to determine a length or an area within a scene (32) which are characterized at least partially by a real start point (40-2) and a real end point (42-2), wherein the measurement takes place using at least two images (18, 20) and it is thereby not necessary for the real start point (40-2) and the real end point (42-2) to be imaged in one of the images (18, 20).

Abstract: A measuring system for checking a measured-image state and/or a calibration quality for a stereo measured image, comprising: a first image capturing apparatus; a second image capturing apparatus spaced apart from the first image capturing apparatus; an output apparatus; and an evaluation apparatus designed to generate a stereo measured image from the at least first measured image and the at least second measured image by way of stereo reconstruction; wherein the evaluation apparatus is designed to check a measured-image state and/or to check the calibration quality of the stereo measured image and, should the at least one capturing defect overshoot or undershoot a predetermined threshold value, to transmit a first alert to the output device, and/or, should the calibration quality overshoot or undershoot a predetermined quality limit value, to transmit a second alert to the output device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medical device (100) and to a method for examining an organic tissue. According to the invention, a reference tissue section (11) is defined, thereby simultaneously defining a reference tissue type. For this reference tissue section (11) a characteristic distribution of multispectral intensity profiles is detected. For a tissue region to be examined multispectral intensity profiles are detected. Tissue sections of the tissue region of interest are 10 associated with the reference tissue types on the basis of the intensity profiles and the characteristic distributions, for example on the basis of a similarity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medical imaging device, in particular a laparoscope, endoscope and/or exoscope, having a light source for illuminating a viewing area, a lens having an optical path for capturing the viewing area and imaging first image information of the viewing area on an image capturing device, having a sensitivity distribution such that the first image information is captured by the image capturing device and imaging second image information of said viewing area on said image capturing device such that said second image information is captured by said image capturing device, and an adjustment device for adjusting image parameters of the image capturing device, wherein the adjustment device is associated with a control unit, wherein the first image information can be captured by the control unit and the control unit controls the adjustment device in dependence on the first image information for adjusting the sensitivity distribution with a calibration correlation between the first image informati

Abstract: A medical imaging device, in particular a stereo endoscope or stereo exoscope, includes a first light source and a second light source; a first optical path having a first image sensor having a first sensor filter; and a second optical path having a second image sensor having a second sensor filter; wherein the first optical path and the second optical path are spatially offset from one another, and a first image and a second image form a superposed image having a dual piece of image information. The particular light source is designed to illuminate the viewing region with a particular light spectrum such that physiological parameters of the viewing region can be determined on the basis of the particular light spectrum and different spectral ranges of the particular image can be evaluated to obtain an additional piece(s) of image information regarding the physiological parameters in the viewing region.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for the at least partial optical overlay on at least one piece of information in the foreground of a digital image of an observed region, recorded by a medical imaging device, with pieces of image information corresponding to the region in the field of view of the medical imaging device concealed by the at least one piece of information.

Abstract: A method for calibrating a medical imaging device is provided. The medical imaging device may be an endoscope system or an exoscope system. The medical imaging device includes an optical system with optics and an imaging sensor for capturing an image of a viewing region, and image information of the image being subject to a spectral deviation as a result of an internal and/or external influence, as a result of the optical system, lighting and/or an ambient condition, said method having multiple steps. A medical imaging device, in particular a medical endoscope or a medical exoscope incorporating the method is also provided.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment relates to a measuring method (50) and to a measuring device (10) in order to determine a length or an area within a scene (32) which are characterized at least partially by a real start point (40-2) and a real end point (42-2), wherein the measurement takes place using at least two images (18, 20) and it is thereby not necessary for the real start point (40-2) and the real end point (42-2) to be imaged in one of the images (18, 20).