Paper Info
Title
Technical Note: Towards Virtual Monitors for Image Guided Interventions - Real-time Streaming to Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Displays.
Abstract
Purpose: Image guidance is crucial for the success of many interventions. Images are displayed on designated monitors that cannot be positioned optimally due to sterility and spatial constraints. This indirect visualization causes potential occlusion, hinders hand-eye coordination, leads to increased procedure duration and surgeon load. Methods: We propose a virtual monitor system that displays medical images in a mixed reality visualization using optical see-through head-mounted displays. The system streams high-resolution medical images from any modality to the head-mounted display in real-time that are blended with the surgical site. It allows for mixed reality visualization of images in head-, world-, or body-anchored mode and can thus be adapted to specific procedural needs. Results: For typical image sizes, the proposed system exhibits an average end-to-end delay and refresh rate of 214 +- 30 ms and 41:4 +- 32:0 Hz, respectively. Conclusions: The proposed virtual monitor system is capable of real-time mixed reality visualization of medical images. In future, we seek to conduct first pre-clinical studies to quantitatively assess the impact of the system on standard image guided procedures.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
arXiv: Other Computer Science
Computer vision,Technical note,Visualization,Computer science,Procedure Duration,Refresh rate,Artificial intelligence,Mixed reality
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1710.00808
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qian Long15710.30
Mathias Unberath211.35
Kevin Yu321.45
B Fuerst49312.36
Alex Johnson5143.97
Nassir Navab66594578.60
Greg Osgood7319.13