Surgical navigation technology provides minimally invasive surgery (MIS) with the relative
pose relationships amongst medical images, surgical instruments, and lesions. On the other …

Medical image analysis forms the basis of image-guided surgery (IGS) and many of its
fundamental tasks. Driven by the growing number of medical imaging modalities, the …

Existing 3-D structured light (SL) scanning methods require a high number of images
(multifrequency phase shifting, MF-PS) or embed signals in the space domain (space …

Significance As an example of a minimally invasive arthroscopic surgical procedure,
arthroscopic osteochondral autograft transplantation (OAT) is a common option for repairing …

Feature matching is an important technology to obtain the surface morphology of soft tissues
in intraoperative endoscopy images. The extraction of features from clinical endoscopy …

Building an in vivo three-dimensional (3D) surface model from a monocular endoscopy is an
effective technology to improve the intuitiveness and precision of clinical laparoscopic …

A feasible and precise method to measure ligament strain during surgical interventions
could significantly enhance the quality of ligament reconstructions. However, all existing …

Image-based 3D reconstruction enables laparoscopic applications as image-guided
navigation and (autonomous) robot-assisted interventions, which require a high accuracy …

During minimal invasive surgery (MIS), the laparoscope only provides a single viewpoint to
the surgeon, leaving a lack of 3D perception. Many works have been proposed to obtain …

An otoendoscopic structured-light system based on fringe-projection profilometry is
presented. Two standard rigid otoendoscopes are mounted onto each other and combined …