公开(公告)号：US09600880B2

公开(公告)日：2017-03-21

申请号：US14880705

申请日：2015-10-12

Applicant: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES

Inventor： Han-Chao Chang ,  Min-Wei Hung ,  Yu-Hsuan Lin ,  Cheng-Ru Li

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  G06T7/00 ,  A61B17/128 ,  A61B17/122 ,  G02B21/00 ,  G02B21/36

CPC classification number: G06T7/0012 ,  A61B17/122 ,  A61B17/1285 ,  G02B21/0012 ,  G02B21/361 ,  G02B21/365 ,  G06T7/0006 ,  G06T2207/10056

Abstract: A method and system for qualifying a surgical clip applier with surgical clips are proposed. After successive firing operations of the surgical clip applier, an image capture unit captures sampling images associated respectively with angularly equidistant radial recesses in a rotatable clip-receiving disk for receiving anything fired from the surgical clip applier. Upon determining that each sampling image contains an individual target image portion showing a single fired surgical clip, a processing unit verifies the qualification of the surgical clip applier based on a predetermined specification and characteristic parameters obtained respectively from the individual target image portions and associated respectively with the surgical clips, which are received respectively in the radial recesses.