Endoscopic egomotion computation

Tobias Bergen; Steffen Ruthotto; Stephan Rupp; Christian Winter; Christian Münzenmayer

doi:10.1117/12.844689

12 March 2010 Endoscopic egomotion computation

Tobias Bergen, Steffen Ruthotto, Stephan Rupp, Christian Winter, Christian Münzenmayer

Proceedings Volume 7623, Medical Imaging 2010: Image Processing; 76232J (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844689
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Computer assistance in Minimally Invasive Surgery is a very active field of research. Many systems designed for Computer Assisted Surgery require information about the instruments' positions and orientations. Our main focus lies on tracking a laparoscopic ultrasound probe to generate 3D ultrasound volumes. State-of-the-art tracking methods such as optical or electromagnetic tracking systems measure pose with respect to a fixed extra-body coordinate system. This causes inaccuracies of the reconstructed ultrasound volume in the case of patient motion, e.g. due to respiration. We propose attaching an endoscopic camera to the ultrasound probe and calculating the camera motion from the video sequence with respect to the organ surface. We adapt algorithms developed for solving the relative pose problem to recreate the camera path during the ultrasound sweep over the organ. By this image-based motion estimation camera motion can only be determined up to an unknown scale factor, known as the depth-speed-ambiguity. We show, how this problem can be overcome in the given scenario, exploiting the fact, that the distance of the camera to the organ surface is fixed and known. Preprocessing steps are applied to compensate for endoscopic image quality deficiencies.

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Tobias Bergen, Steffen Ruthotto, Stephan Rupp, Christian Winter, and Christian Münzenmayer "Endoscopic egomotion computation", Proc. SPIE 7623, Medical Imaging 2010: Image Processing, 76232J (12 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844689

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