Automatically-initialized robotic systems for navigation of luminal networks

R Ummalaneni - US Patent 10,022,192, 2018 - Google Patents
Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for navigation-assisted medical devices.
Some aspects relate to correlating features of depth information generated based on …

Evaluation and Stability Analysis of Video-Based Navigation System for Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery on In Vivo Clinical Data

S Leonard, A Sinha, A Reiter, M Ishii… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is one of the most common outpatient surgical
procedures performed in the head and neck region. It is used to treat chronic sinusitis, a …

A discriminative structural similarity measure and its application to video-volume registration for endoscope three-dimensional motion tracking

X Luo, K Mori - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Endoscope 3-D motion tracking, which seeks to synchronize preand intra-operative images
in endoscopic interventions, is usually performed as video-volume registration that optimizes …

Observation-driven adaptive differential evolution and its application to accurate and smooth bronchoscope three-dimensional motion tracking

X Luo, Y Wan, X He, K Mori - Medical Image Analysis, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an observation-driven adaptive differential evolution algorithm that
fuses bronchoscopic video sequences, electromagnetic sensor measurements, and …

Robust bronchoscope motion tracking using sequential Monte Carlo methods in navigated bronchoscopy: dynamic phantom and patient validation

X Luó, M Feuerstein, T Kitasaka, K Mori - International journal of computer …, 2012 - Springer
Purpose Accurate and robust estimates of camera position and orientation in a
bronchoscope are required for navigation. Fusion of pre-interventional information (eg, CT …

Robust electromagnetically guided endoscopic procedure using enhanced particle swarm optimization for multimodal information fusion

X Luo, Y Wan, X He - Medical physics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Electromagnetically guided endoscopic procedure, which aims at accurately and
robustly localizing the endoscope, involves multimodal sensory information during …

Multilevel hierarchical mobility management scheme in complicated structured networks

K Kawano, K Kinoshita… - 29th annual IEEE …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Micromobility management is a key issue for achieving enhanced mobile Internet services.
Many micromobility management schemes supporting fast handover, eg, Hierarchical …

Deformable registration of bronchoscopic video sequences to CT volumes with guaranteed smooth output

T Reichl, X Luo, M Menzel, H Hautmann, K Mori… - … Image Computing and …, 2011 - Springer
We present a novel approach to tracking of flexible bronchoscopes by modeling the output
as spatially continuous over time. Bronchoscopy is a widespread clinical procedure for …

Hybrid electromagnetic and image-based tracking of endoscopes with guaranteed smooth output

T Reichl, X Luo, M Menzel, H Hautmann, K Mori… - International journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose Flexible fiber-optic bronchoscopy is a widespread medical procedure for the
diagnosis and treatment of lung diseases. Navigation systems are needed to track the …

Bronchoscopy navigation beyond electromagnetic tracking systems: a novel bronchoscope tracking prototype

X Luo, T Kitasaka, K Mori - … , Toronto, Canada, September 18-22, 2011 …, 2011 - Springer
A novel bronchoscope tracking prototype was designed and validated for bronchoscopic
navigation. We construct a novel mouth-or nose-piece bronchoscope model to directly …