A navigation system for brain surgery using computer vision technology

Jiann Der Lee*, Chung Wei Lin, Chung Hsien Huang, Shin Tseng Lee, Chien Tsai Wu

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Abstract

In this paper, a surgical navigation system based on stereo-vision has been proposed. With the help of a projector, surface point data of a patient are firstly captured from two cameras by using the stereo-vision technique. Next, these point data is then registered by another surface point data obtained from the patient's pre-stored CT images using Feature-added ICP algorithm. For surgical navigation, a stereo-vision-based tracker is also designed in this system. In this manner, the anatomical information obtained from CT is fused on the images captured by the cameras and the tracker can be mounted to any surgical device for further surgical applications. Compared to conventional image guided surgeries, the proposed system has the advantage of fusing the visual and anatomical information such that it is more accurate and convenient.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Imaging and Augmented Reality - 4th International Workshop, Proceedings
Pages289-299
Number of pages11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event4th International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, MIAR 2008 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 01 08 200802 08 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5128 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, MIAR 2008
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period01/08/0802/08/08

Keywords

  • ICP registration
  • Navigation system
  • Stereo-vision

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