Image stabilisation of the beating heart by local linear interpolation

Martin Gröger; Gerd Hirzinger

doi:10.1117/12.654119

13 March 2006 Image stabilisation of the beating heart by local linear interpolation

Martin Gröger, Gerd Hirzinger

Proceedings Volume 6141, Medical Imaging 2006: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display; 61410X (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.654119
Event: Medical Imaging, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The stabilisation of motion on the beating heart is investigated in the context of minimally invasive robotic surgery. Although reduced by mechanical stabilisers, residual tissue motion makes safe surgery still difficult and time consuming. Compensation for this movement is therefore highly desirable. Motion can be captured by tracking natural landmarks on the heart surface recorded by a video endoscope. Stabilisation is achieved by transforming the images using a motion field calculated from captured local motion. Since the surface of the beating heart is distorted nonlinearly, compensating the occurring motion with a constant image correction factor is not sufficient. Therefore, heart motion is captured by several landmarks, the motion between which is interpolated such that locally appropriate motion correction values are obtained. To estimate the motion between the landmark positions, a triangulation is built and motion information in each triangle is approximated by linear interpolation. Motion compensation is evaluated by calculating the optical flow remaining in the stabilised images. The proposed linear interpolation model is able to reduce motion significantly and can also be implemented efficiently to stabilise images of the beating heart in realtime.

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Martin Gröger and Gerd Hirzinger "Image stabilisation of the beating heart by local linear interpolation", Proc. SPIE 6141, Medical Imaging 2006: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display, 61410X (13 March 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.654119

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