Tracking endoscopic instruments without a localizer: A shape-analysis-based approach

Computer Aided Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-42

  Tonet, Oliver ^a,b   Thoranaghatte, Ramesh U ^c   Megali, Giuseppe ^a,b   Dario, Paolo ^a,b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Laparoscopy; Localization; Pinhole camera; Shape analysis; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; CAMERA; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LAPAROSCOPY; NEURONAVIGATION; ROBOTICS;

EID: 33847094701     PISSN: 10929088     EISSN: 10970150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10929080701210782     Document Type: Conference Paper

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