3D soft-tissue tracking using spatial-color joint probability distribution and thin-plate spline model

B Yang, WK Wong, C Liu, P Poignet - Pattern recognition, 2014 - Elsevier
Visual tracking techniques based on stereo endoscope are developed to measure tissue
motion in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. However, accurate 3D tracking of tissue …

A quasi-spherical triangle-based approach for efficient 3-D soft-tissue motion tracking

WK Wong, B Yang, C Liu… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, model-based visual-tracking techniques have been developed for measuring
physiological motion in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. However, the tracking of …

Real-time 3d tracking of articulated tools for robotic surgery

M Ye, L Zhang, S Giannarou, GZ Yang - … 17-21, 2016, Proceedings, Part I …, 2016 - Springer
In robotic surgery, tool tracking is important for providing safe tool-tissue interaction and
facilitating surgical skills assessment. Despite recent advances in tool tracking, existing …

[HTML][HTML] Combined 2D and 3D tracking of surgical instruments for minimally invasive and robotic-assisted surgery

X Du, M Allan, A Dore, S Ourselin, D Hawkes… - International journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose Computer-assisted interventions for enhanced minimally invasive surgery (MIS)
require tracking of the surgical instruments. Instrument tracking is a challenging problem in …

[HTML][HTML] Stereo vision-based tracking of soft tissue motion with application to online ablation control in laser microsurgery

A Schoob, D Kundrat, LA Kahrs, T Ortmaier - Medical image analysis, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent research has revealed that image-based methods can enhance accuracy and safety
in laser microsurgery. In this study, non-rigid tracking using surgical stereo imaging and its …

Towards real-time multiple surgical tool tracking

M Robu, A Kadkhodamohammadi… - Computer Methods in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Surgical tool tracking is an essential building block for computer-assisted interventions (CAI)
and applications like video summarisation, workflow analysis and surgical navigation. Vision …

Robust surface tracking combining features, intensity and illumination compensation

X Du, N Clancy, S Arya, GB Hanna, J Kelly… - International journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Purpose Recovering tissue deformation during robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery
procedures is important for providing intra-operative guidance, enabling in vivo imaging …

Soft tissue motion tracking with application to tablet-based incision planning in laser surgery

A Schoob, MH Laves, LA Kahrs, T Ortmaier - International journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose Recent research has revealed that incision planning in laser surgery deploying
stylus and tablet outperforms micromanipulator control. However, vision-based adaption to …

Accurate multiscale selective fusion of CT and video images for real-time endoscopic camera 3D tracking in robotic surgery

X Luo - ICASSP 2022-2022 IEEE International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic surgery requires endoscope 3D tracking to navigate the endoscope in the body.
This paper proposes an accurate multiscale selective fusion framework to register 2D …

2D-3D pose tracking of rigid instruments in minimally invasive surgery

M Allan, S Thompson, MJ Clarkson, S Ourselin… - … Processing in Computer …, 2014 - Springer
Instrument localization and tracking is an important challenge for advanced computer
assisted techniques in minimally invasive surgery and image-based solutions to instrument …