Comparative validation of single-shot optical techniques for laparoscopic 3-D surface reconstruction

L Maier-Hein, A Groch, A Bartoli… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intra-operative imaging techniques for obtaining the shape and morphology of soft-tissue
surfaces in vivo are a key enabling technology for advanced surgical systems. Different …

Toward long-term and accurate augmented-reality for monocular endoscopic videos

GA Puerto-Souza, JA Cadeddu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By overlaying preoperative radiological 3-D models onto the intraoperative laparoscopic
video, augmented-reality (AR) displays promise to increase surgeons' visual awareness of …

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 …

Wide-baseline dense feature matching for endoscopic images

GA Puerto-Souza, GL Mariottini - Image and Video Technology: 6th Pacific …, 2014 - Springer
Providing a feature-matching strategy to accurately recover tracked features after a fast and
large endoscopic-camera motion or a strong organ deformation, is key in many endoscopic …

The use of time-of-flight camera for navigating robots in computer-aided surgery: Monitoring the soft tissue envelope of minimally invasive hip approach in a cadaver …

D Putzer, S Klug, JL Moctezuma… - Surgical …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Background. Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras can guide surgical robots or provide soft tissue
information for augmented reality in the medical field. In this study, a method to automatically …

Interpolation based deformation model for minimally invasive beating heart surgery

AI Aviles, A Casals - XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and …, 2014 - Springer
Heart motion compensation is a key issue in medical robotics due to the benefits that
minimally invasive beating heart surgery offers over traditional cardiac surgery. Although …

Robust 3 D motion tracking for vision‐based control in robotic heart surgery

B Yang, C Liu - Asian Journal of Control, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, model‐based visual tracking techniques using endoscopic images have been
proposed for estimating beating heart motion and thus actively compensating motion in …

An approach for physiological motion compensation in robotic-assisted cardiac surgery

AI Avilés Rivero, P Sobrevilla Frisón… - … & Clinical Cardiology, 2014 - upcommons.upc.edu
The lack of physiological motion compensation is a major problem in robotic-assisted
cardiac surgery. Since the heart is beating while the surgeon carried out the procedure …

Unconstrained ℓ1 — regularized minimization with interpolated transformations for heart motion compensation

AI Aviles, P Sobrevilla, A Casals - 2014 36th Annual …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion compensation constitutes a challenging issue in minimally invasive beating heart
surgery. Since the zone to be repaired has a dynamic behaviour, precision and surgeon's …

On genetic algorithms optimization for heart motion compensation

AI Aviles, A Casals - … : First Iberian Robotics Conference: Advances in …, 2014 - Springer
Heart motion compensation is a challenging problem within medical robotics and it is still
considered an open research area due to the lack of robustness. As it can be formulated as …