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Automatic, global registration in laparoscopic liver surgery

Koo, B; Robu, MR; Allam, M; Pfeiffer, M; Thompson, S; Gurusamy, K; Davidson, B; ... Clarkson, MJ; + view all (2021) Automatic, global registration in laparoscopic liver surgery. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 10.1007/s11548-021-02518-7. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

PURPOSE: The initial registration of a 3D pre-operative CT model to a 2D laparoscopic video image in augmented reality systems for liver surgery needs to be fast, intuitive to perform and with minimal interruptions to the surgical intervention. Several recent methods have focussed on using easily recognisable landmarks across modalities. However, these methods still need manual annotation or manual alignment. We propose a novel, fully automatic pipeline for 3D-2D global registration in laparoscopic liver interventions. METHODS: Firstly, we train a fully convolutional network for the semantic detection of liver contours in laparoscopic images. Secondly, we propose a novel contour-based global registration algorithm to estimate the camera pose without any manual input during surgery. The contours used are the anterior ridge and the silhouette of the liver. RESULTS: We show excellent generalisation of the semantic contour detection on test data from 8 clinical cases. In quantitative experiments, the proposed contour-based registration can successfully estimate a global alignment with as little as 30% of the liver surface, a visibility ratio which is characteristic of laparoscopic interventions. Moreover, the proposed pipeline showed very promising results in clinical data from 5 laparoscopic interventions. CONCLUSIONS: Our proposed automatic global registration could make augmented reality systems more intuitive and usable for surgeons and easier to translate to operating rooms. Yet, as the liver is deformed significantly during surgery, it will be very beneficial to incorporate deformation into our method for more accurate registration.

Type: Article
Title: Automatic, global registration in laparoscopic liver surgery
Location: Germany
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s11548-021-02518-7
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-021-02518-7
Language: English
Additional information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Augmented reality, Automatic registration, Deep learning, Image guidance, Laparoscopy, Semantic contour detection
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Surgery and Interventional Sci
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Surgery and Interventional Sci > Department of Surgical Biotechnology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10137545
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