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: 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: A system and method for generating a report of events includes receiving procedure data captured during a procedure by at least one of a first sensor and a second sensor, each of the first sensor and the second sensor communicatively coupled to data processing hardware. The system and method also include detecting a first plurality of events in the procedure data, detecting a second plurality of events in the procedure data, and for each event of the first plurality of events and the second plurality of events, associating the event with a respective timestamp of when the event occurred during the procedure. The system and method further include merging the events by synchronizing the first plurality of events and the second plurality of events based on the respective timestamps, and generating a machine readable report including the merged events.

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: 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: A method and a control system for image analysis and optimization of at least one image acquired at the distal end of an endoscope includes the following steps: acquiring image data by means of an image acquisition device of an endoscope; receiving the image data by a control unit, pre-analyzing at least a subset of the image data of one or more consecutive images by a control unit to determine at least one image structure; determining a quality value by means of a training data-based, preferably self-learning, module by comparing the at least one determined image structure with image structures of a reference database stored in a memory unit, and on the basis of the determined quality value, manually or automatically outputting control instructions from the control unit to a unit for activating image optimization.

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: 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).