AMBU A/S Endoscope Image Processing Device, Patent Granted

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Endoscope image processing device

Grant US12605039B2 Kind: B2 Apr 21, 2026

Assignee

AMBU A/S

Inventors

Andreas Härstedt Jørgensen, Finn Sonnenborg, Dana Marie Yu, Lee Herluf Lund Lassen, Alejandro Alonso Díaz, Josefine Dam Gade

Abstract

An image processing device including a housing and a processing circuit in the housing, the processing circuit including a processor and memory, the memory including a neural network model and proximity suppression logic, the neural network model comprising a single-pass neural network model trained with training images corresponding to an endoscopic procedure and defining anatomic references observable in the training images, wherein the neural network model is configured to process images, to detect the anatomic references in the images, and to output a set of anatomic references including identifiers and confidence values representing the likelihoods that the anatomic reference identifiers are correct, and wherein the proximity suppression logic is configured to change the confidence values of the anatomic references in the set of anatomic references based on a prior position of the endoscope to identify an anatomic reference indicative of the current position of the endoscope.

CPC Classifications

A61B 1/000096

Filing Date

2022-12-02

Application No.

18074436

Claims

16

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