Visualization and planning of neurosurgical interventions with straight access
IPCAI'10 Proceedings of the First international conference on Information processing in computer-assisted interventions
Biopsy Planner – Visual Analysis for Needle Pathway Planning in Deep Seated Brain Tumor Biopsy
Computer Graphics Forum
Concurrent volume visualization of real-time fMRI
VG'10 Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/EG international conference on Volume Graphics
3D CBIR with sparse coding for image-guided neurosurgery
Signal Processing
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Neurosurgical planning and image guided neurosurgery require the visualization of multimodal data obtained from various functional and structural image modalities, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), functional MRI, Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and so on. In the case of epilepsy neurosurgery for example, these images are used to identify brain regions to guide intracranial electrode implantation and resection.Generally, such data is visualized using 2D slices and in some cases using a 3D volume rendering along with the functional imaging results.Visualizing the activation region effectively by still preserving sufficient surrounding brain regions for context is exceedingly important to neurologists and surgeons.We present novel interaction techniques for visualization of multimodaldata to facilitate improved exploration and planning for neurosurgery.We extended the line widget from VTK to allow surgeons to control the shape ofthe region of the brain that they can visually crop away during exploration and surgery. We allow simple spherical, cubical, ellipsoidal and cylindrical (probe aligned cuts) for exploration purposes. In addition weintegrate the cropping tool with the image-guided navigation system used for epilepsy neurosurgery. We are currently investigating the use of these new tools in surgical planning and based on further feedback from ourneurosurgeons we will integrate them into the setup used for image-guided neurosurgery.