the assessment of surgical skills for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has traditionally been conducted with visual observation and objective scoring. this paper presents a practical framework for the detection of ins...
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the assessment of surgical skills for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has traditionally been conducted with visual observation and objective scoring. this paper presents a practical framework for the detection of instrument/tissue interaction from MIS video sequences by incorporating multiple visual cues. the proposed technique investigates the characteristics of four major events involved in MIS procedures including idle, retraction, cauterisation and suturing. Constant instrument tracking is maintained and multiple visual cues related to shape, deformation, changes in light reflection and other low level images featured are combined in a Bayesian framework to achieve an overall frame-by-frame classification accuracy of 77% and episode classification accuracy of 85%.
Intraoperative brain deformation is one of the most contributing factors to the inaccuracy of image-guided neurosurgery systems. One option for correcting for this deformation is to acquire 3D ultrasound images during...
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In this paper we present extensions to the Robust Point Matching framework to improve its ability to handle larger point sets with greater computational efficiency. While in the past this methodology has only been use...
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An automated method for segmenting the outer boundary of abdominal aortic aneurysms in MR images is presented. the method is based on the well known Active Shape Models (ASM), which fit a global landmark-based shape m...
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(数字)9783540399032
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(纸本)9783540204640
An automated method for segmenting the outer boundary of abdominal aortic aneurysms in MR images is presented. the method is based on the well known Active Shape Models (ASM), which fit a global landmark-based shape model on the basis of local boundary appearance models. the original three-dimensional ASM scheme is modified to deal with multi-spectral image information and inconsistent boundary appearance in a principled way, with only a limited amount of training data. In addition, a framework for user interaction is proposed. If required, the obtained segmentation can be corrected in an interactive manner by indicating points on the desired boundary. the methods are evaluated in leave-one-out experiments on 21 datasets. A segmentation scheme combining gray level information from two or three MR sequences produces significantly better results than a single-scan model. Average volume errors with respect to the manual segmentation are 4.0%, in 19 out of 21 datasets. In the cases in which the obtained error is large, results can easily be improved using the interactive scheme.
Compensating for intraoperative brain shift using computational models has been used with promising results. Since computational time is an important factor during neurosurgery, a prior knowledge of a patient's or...
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Compensating for intraoperative brain shift using computational models has been used with promising results. Since computational time is an important factor during neurosurgery, a prior knowledge of a patient's orientation and changes in tissue buoyancy force would be valuable information to aid in predicting shift due to gravitational forces. Since the latter is difficult to quantify intraoperatively, a statistical model for predicting intraoperative brain deformations due to gravity is reported. this statistical model builds on a computational model developed earlier. For a given set of patient's orientation and amount of CSF drainage, the intraoperative brain shift is calculated using the computational model. these displacements are then validated against measured displacements to predict the intraoperative brain shift. though initial results are promising, further study is needed before the statistical model can be used for model-updated image-guided surgery.
the computation of an optic flow field to reconstruct a dense velocity field from a sequence of tagged MR images faces a major difficulty: a non-constant pixel intensity. In this paper, we resolved this problem by reg...
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the computation of an optic flow field to reconstruct a dense velocity field from a sequence of tagged MR images faces a major difficulty: a non-constant pixel intensity. In this paper, we resolved this problem by regarding the MRI sequence as density images, which adhere to a principle of conservation of intensity. Based on this principle, optic flow equations are developed based on Gaussian derivatives as differential operators. the multiscale optic flow method is applied to cardiac tagged MRI. A quantitative analysis is presented comparing the reconstructed dense velocity field with a directly acquired velocity field using the velocity-encoded (VEC) MRI.
A generalized image model (GIM) is presented. images are represented as sets of 4-dimensional sites combining position and intensity information, as well as their associated uncertainty and joint variation. this model...
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this paper presents a new pq-space based 2D/3D registration method for camera pose estimation for endoscope tracking. the proposed technique involves the extraction of surface normals for each pixel of the video image...
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this paper presents a new pq-space based 2D/3D registration method for camera pose estimation for endoscope tracking. the proposed technique involves the extraction of surface normals for each pixel of the video images by using a linear local shape-from-shading algorithm derived from the unique camera/lighting constrains of the endoscopes. We illustrate how to use the derived pq-space distribution to match to that of the 3D tomographic model, and demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed method by using an electro-magnetic tracker and a specially constructed airway phantom. Comparison to existing intensity-based techniques has also been made, which highlights the major strength of the proposed method in its robustness against illumination and tissue deformation.
the finite element method (FEM) is well suited for use in the non-rigid registration of magnetic resonance spectroscopy images (MRSI) with intraoperative ultrasound images of the prostate because FEM provides a princi...
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the finite element method (FEM) is well suited for use in the non-rigid registration of magnetic resonance spectroscopy images (MRSI) with intraoperative ultrasound images of the prostate because FEM provides a principled method for modeling the physical deformation caused when the MRSI intra-rectal imaging probe compresses the prostate. However, FEM requires significant labor and computational time to construct a finite element model and solve the resulting large system of equations. In particular, any finite element based registration method must address the questions of how to generate a mesh from an image and how to solve the system of finite element equations efficiently, this paper focuses on how m-rep image segmentations can be used to generate high quality multi-scale hexahedral meshes for use with FEM. Results from the application of this method to the registration of CT images of a prostate phantom with implanted brachytherapy seeds are presented.
We are investigating interventional MRI (iMRI) guided thermal ablation treatment of the prostate cancer. Functional images such as SPECT can detect and localize tumor in the prostate not reliably seen in MRI. We inten...
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(数字)9783540399032
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(纸本)9783540204640
We are investigating interventional MRI (iMRI) guided thermal ablation treatment of the prostate cancer. Functional images such as SPECT can detect and localize tumor in the prostate not reliably seen in MRI. We intend to combine the advantages of SPECT with iMRI-guided treatments. Our concept is to first register the low-resolution SPECT with a high resolution MRI volume. then by registering the high-resolution MR image with iMRI acquisitions, we can, in turn, map the functional data and high-resolution anatomic information to iMRI images for improved tumor targeting. For the first step, we used a mutual information registration method. For the latter, we developed a robust slice to volume (SV) registration algorithm. image data were acquired from patients and volunteers. Compared to our volume-to-volume registration that was previously evaluated to be quite accurate, the SV registration accuracy is about 0.5 mm for transverse images covering the prostate. With our image registration and fusion software, simulation experiments show that it is feasible to incorporate SPECT and high resolution MRI into the iMRI-guided treatment.
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