A Method for Registration of 3-D Shapes
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Special issue on interpretation of 3-D scenes—part II
Computation of Local Differential Parameters on Irregular Meshes
Proceedings of the 9th IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces
Bayesian Estimation of Intra-operative Deformation for Image-Guided Surgery Using 3-D Ultrasound
MICCAI '00 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
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This paper presents an extension to the standard Bayesian image analysis paradigm to explicitly incorporate a multiscale approach. This new technique is demonstrated by applying it to the problem of compensating for soft tissue deformation of pre-segmented surfaces for image-guided surgery using 3-D ultrasound. The solution is regularised using knowledge of the mean and Gaussian curvatures of the surface estimate. Results are presented from testing the method on ultrasound data acquired from a volunteer's liver. Two structures were segmented from an MR scan of the volunteer: the liver surface and the portal vein. Accurate estimates of the deformed surfaces were successfully computed using the algorithm, based on prior probabilities defined using a minimal amount of human intervention. With a more accurate prior model, this technique has the possibility to completely automate the process of compensating for intraoperative deformation in image-guided surgery.