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Visual Tracking of Instruments in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Allan, MH; (2017) Visual Tracking of Instruments in Minimally Invasive Surgery. Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London). Green open access

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Abstract

Reducing access trauma has been a focal point for modern surgery and tackling the challenges that arise from new operating techniques and instruments is an exciting and open area of research. Lack of awareness and control from indirect manipulation and visualization has created a need to augment the surgeon's understanding and perception of how their instruments interact with the patient's anatomy but current methods of achieving this are inaccurate and difficult to integrate into the surgical workflow. Visual methods have the potential to recover the position and orientation of the instruments directly in the reference frame of the observing camera without the need to introduce additional hardware to the operating room and perform complex calibration steps. This thesis explores how this problem can be solved with the fusion of coarse region and fine scale point features to enable the recovery of both the rigid and articulated degrees of freedom of laparoscopic and robotic instruments using only images provided by the surgical camera. Extensive experiments on different image features are used to determine suitable representations for reliable and robust pose estimation. Using this information a novel framework is presented which estimates 3D pose with a region matching scheme while using frame-to-frame optical flow to account for challenges due to symmetry in the instrument design. The kinematic structure of articulated robotic instruments is also used to track the movement of the head and claspers. The robustness of this method was evaluated on calibrated ex-vivo images and in-vivo sequences and comparative studies are performed with state-of-the-art kinematic assisted tracking methods.

Type: Thesis (Doctoral)
Title: Visual Tracking of Instruments in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Event: UCL
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Keywords: Robotic surgery, minimally invasive surgery, visual tracking, computer vision, instrument detection
UCL classification: UCL
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 Targeted Intervention
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1542475
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