Vision-based navigation in image-guided interventions

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages 297-319

  Mirota, Daniel J ^a   Ishii, Masaru ^b   Hager, Gregory D ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic surgery; NOTES; Quantitative endoscopy; Registration; Surgical navigation; Tracking; Video processing; Visualization

Indexed keywords

LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NOTES; QUANTITATIVE ENDOSCOPY; REGISTRATION; SURGICAL NAVIGATION; VIDEO PROCESSING;

AUGMENTED REALITY; ENDOSCOPY; NAVIGATION; NEUROSURGERY; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL); VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CAMERA; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; LAPAROSCOPY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGERY; RHINOSCOPY; ROBOTIC ASSISTED SURGERY; SKULL BASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VISION;

ALGORITHMS; BRONCHOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; NATURAL ORIFICE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 79960504406     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: 15454274     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-071910-124757     Document Type: Article

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