Title
Endoscopic feature tracking for augmented-reality assisted prosthesis selection in mitral valve repair.
Abstract
Mitral valve annuloplasty describes a surgical procedure where an artificial prosthesis is sutured onto the anatomical structure of the mitral annulus to re-establish the valve's functionality. Choosing an appropriate commercially available ring size and shape is a difficult decision the surgeon has to make intraoperatively according to his experience. In our augmented-reality framework, digitalized ring models are superimposed onto endoscopic image streams without using any additional hardware. To place the ring model on the proper position within the endoscopic image plane, a pose estimation is performed that depends on the localization of sutures placed by the surgeon around the leaflet origins and punctured through the stiffer structure of the annulus. In this work, the tissue penetration points are tracked by the real-time capable Lucas Kanade optical flow algorithm. The accuracy and robustness of this tracking algorithm is investigated with respect to the question whether outliers influence the subsequent pose estimation. Our results suggest that optical flow is very stable for a variety of different endoscopic scenes and tracking errors do not affect the position of the superimposed virtual objects in the scene, making this approach a viable candidate for annuloplasty augmented reality-enhanced decision support.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1117/12.2216239
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mitral Valve Reconstruction,Augmented Reality,Optical Flow,Surgical Suture Detection,Annuloplasty Ring Prosthesis,Endoscopic Image Processing,Cardiac Surgery
Mitral valve annuloplasty,Computer vision,Image plane,Augmented reality,Robustness (computer science),Pose,Mitral valve repair,Lucas–Kanade method,Artificial intelligence,Optical flow,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9786
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sandy Engelhardt12913.14
Silvio Kolb200.34
Raffaele De Simone34117.95
Matthias Karck4146.97
H.P. Meinzer545471.14
Ivo Wolf673985.17