Optical techniques for 3D surface reconstruction in computer-assisted laparoscopic surgery

L Maier-Hein, P Mountney, A Bartoli, H Elhawary… - Medical image …, 2013 - Elsevier
One of the main challenges for computer-assisted surgery (CAS) is to determine the intra-
operative morphology and motion of soft-tissues. This information is prerequisite to the …

Surgical vision

D Stoyanov - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2012 - Springer
Abstract The emergence of Minimal Access Surgery (MAS) as a paradigm in modern
healthcare treatment has created new challenges and opportunities for automated image …

Convergent iterative closest-point algorithm to accomodate anisotropic and inhomogenous localization error

L Maier-Hein, AM Franz, TR Dos Santos… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since its introduction in the early 1990s, the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm has
become one of the most well-known methods for geometric alignment of 3D models. Given …

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 …

Real-time range imaging in health care: A survey

S Bauer, A Seitel, H Hofmann, T Blum, J Wasza… - Time-of-Flight and Depth …, 2013 - Springer
The recent availability of dynamic, dense, and low-cost range imaging has gained
widespread interest in health care. It opens up new opportunities and has an increasing …

Shape-aware surface reconstruction from sparse 3D point-clouds

F Bernard, L Salamanca, J Thunberg, A Tack… - Medical image …, 2017 - Elsevier
The reconstruction of an object's shape or surface from a set of 3D points plays an important
role in medical image analysis, eg in anatomy reconstruction from tomographic …

Towards mobile augmented reality for on-patient visualization of medical images

L Maier-Hein, AM Franz, M Fangerau… - Bildverarbeitung für die …, 2011 - Springer
Despite considerable technical and algorithmic developments related to the fields of medical
image acquisition and processing in the past decade, the devices used for visualization of …

Pose-independent surface matching for intra-operative soft-tissue marker-less registration

TR dos Santos, A Seitel, T Kilgus, S Suwelack… - Medical image …, 2014 - Elsevier
One of the main challenges in computer-assisted soft tissue surgery is the registration of
multi-modal patient-specific data for enhancing the surgeon's navigation capabilities by …

Analysis, modeling and dynamic optimization of 3d time-of-flight imaging systems

M Schmidt - 2011 - archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
The present thesis is concerned with the optimization of 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) imaging
systems. These novel cameras determine range images by actively illuminating a scene and …

Risk maps for liver surgery

C Hansen, S Zidowitz, F Ritter, C Lange… - International journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose Optimal display of surgical planning data in the operating room is challenging. In
liver surgery, an expressive and effective intraoperative visualization of 3D planning models …