Bronchoscope tracking without fiducial markers using ultra-tiny electromagnetic tracking system and its evaluation in different environments

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4792 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 644-651

  Mori, Kensaku ^a   Deguchi, Daisuke ^a   Ishitani, Kazuyoshi ^a   Kitasaka, Takayuki ^a   Suenaga, Yasuhito ^a   Hasegawa, Yosihnori ^a,b   Imaizumi, Kazuyoshi ^b   Takabatake, Hirotsugu ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Minami Sanjyo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS;

BRONCHIAL PHANTOM; BRONCHOSCOPY GUIDANCE SYSTEM; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; ULTRA-TINY ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKER (UEMT);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPE; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRONCHOSCOPES; BRONCHOSCOPY; ELECTROMAGNETICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MINIATURIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY;

EID: 79955756830     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75759-7_78     Document Type: Conference Paper

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