Description
Book SynopsisVisual Tracking in Conventional Minimally Invasive Surgery introduces the various tools and methodologies that can be used to enhance a conventional surgical setup with some degree of automation. The main focus of this book is on methods for tracking surgical tools and how they can be used to assist the surgeon during the surgical operation. Various notions associated with surgeoncomputer interfaces and image-guided navigation are explored, with a range of experimental results.
The book starts with some basic motivations for minimally invasive surgery and states the various distinctions between robotic and non-robotic (conventional) versions of this procedure. Common components of this type of operation are presented with a review of the literature addressing the automation aspects of such a setup. Examples of tracking results are shown for both motion and gesture recognition of surgical tools, which can be used as par
Table of Contents
Introduction. Endoscope Setup and Calibration. Marker-Based Tracking. Marker-less Tracking: Gaussian Type. Marker-less
Tracking: Non-Gaussian Type. Reign-Based Tracking. Appendix A: Morphological operation and Neural Network. Appendix B:
Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Model. Appendix C: Overview of Particle Filter. Appendix D: Planar Homography. Appendix E:
Overview of Region Matching Approaches.
