Title
Endoscopic-CT: learning-based photometric reconstruction for endoscopic sinus surgery.
Abstract
In this work we present a method for dense reconstruction of anatomical structures using white light endoscopic imagery based on a learning process that estimates a mapping between light reflectance and surface geometry. Our method is unique in that few unrealistic assumptions are considered (i.e., we do not assume a Lambertian reflectance model nor do we assume a point light source) and we learn a model on a per-patient basis, thus increasing the accuracy and extensibility to different endoscopic sequences. The proposed method assumes accurate video-CT registration through a combination of Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Trimmed-ICP, and then uses the registered 3D structure and motion to generate training data with which to learn a multivariate regression of observed pixel values to known 3D surface geometry. We demonstrate with a non-linear regression technique using a neural network towards estimating depth images and surface normal maps, resulting in high-resolution spatial 3D reconstructions to an average error of 0.53mm (on the low side, when anatomy matches the CT precisely) to 1.12mm (on the high side, when the presence of liquids causes scene geometry that is not present in the CT for evaluation). Our results are exhibited on patient data and validated with associated CT scans. In total, we processed 206 total endoscopic images from patient data, where each image yields approximately 1 million reconstructed 3D points per image.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1117/12.2216296
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
3D reconstruction,structure from motion,shape from shading,video-CT registration
Structure from motion,Bidirectional reflectance distribution function,Computer vision,Optics,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Artificial neural network,Normal,Photometric stereo,Lambertian reflectance,Physics,3D reconstruction
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9784
0277-786X
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
3
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Austin Reiter116413.02
Simon Léonard2518.85
Ayushi Sinha3246.72
Masaru Ishii414116.84
Russell H. Taylor51970438.00
Hager Gregory D61946159.37