3D Reconstruction of the Operating Field for Image Overlay in 3D-Endoscopic Surgery

  • Authors:
  • Frédéric Devernay

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ISAR '01 Proceedings of the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality (ISAR'01)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Building a 3D model of the operating field is the firststage to access the registration of pre-operative surfacemodels in per-operative context. We propose a method tolearn the 3D model of the organs observed by a stereoscopicendoscope. This method is general and requires no a prioriknowledge of the position of the instruments, whether robotizedor manually-controlled, present in the field of view.The result of the learning process allows the removal of theinstruments from the surgeon's field of view: "diminishedreality". This work prefigures the 3D integration by augmentedreality of preoperative organs model (e.g. arteries)in stereoscopic images. Experiments are currently beingperformed to validate our approach using endoscopic sequencesfrom the da VinciTM surgical system.