Multi-modal vision techniques for image-guided surgery

During minimally-invasive surgery, endoscopes and other surgical tools enter the body of the patient through small openings, allowing the operations to be performed with less post-operative pain and faster recovery for the patient, as well as less wound complications. Although great advantages are achieved from the patient’s point-of-view, several difficulties have still to be handled by the surgeons. First, the limited field of view of the endoscope makes target-area localizations and related identifications complex. Second, surgeons should still match mentally the medical images for the surg... Mehr ...