Paper Info
Title
Assessment and comparison of target registration accuracy in surgical instrument tracking technologies.
Abstract
Image guided surgery systems aim to support surgeons by providing reliable pre-operative and intra-operative imaging of the patient combined with the corresponding tracked instrument location. The image guidance is based on a combination of medical images, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) and Ultrasonography (US), and surgical instrument tracking. For this reason, tracking systems are of great importance as they determine location and orientation of the equipment used by surgeons. Assessment of the accuracy of these tracking systems is hence of the utmost importance to determine how much error is introduced in image guided surgery only due to tracking inaccuracy. Thus, this study aimed to compare in a surgical Operating Room (OR) accuracy of the two most used tracking systems, Optical Tracking (OT) and Electromagnetic Tracking (EMT), in terms of Target Registration Error (TRE) assessment at multiple distances from the target position. Results of the experiments show that optical tracking performs more accurately in tracking the instrument tip than electromagnetic tracking in the experimental conditions. This was tested using a phantom designed for accuracy measurement in a wide variety of positions and orientations. Nevertheless, EMT remains a viable option for flexible instruments, due to its reliability in tracking without the need for line of sight.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512671
EMBC
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Electromagnetic tracking,Ultrasonography,Computer science,Imaging phantom,Surgical instrument,Image-guided surgery,Tracking system,Optical tracking,Computed tomography,Artificial intelligence
Conference
2018
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrea Teatini110.69
Javier Pérez de Frutos210.35
Thomas Langø3223.91
bjorn edwin4143.19
Ole Jakob Elle56815.39