TY - GEN
T1 - Data fusion of Electromyography signals from intraoperative nerve monitoring and position information from surgical navigation
AU - Shi, Jiaxi
AU - Lueth, Tim C.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This article presents a new method for the data fusion of the intraoperative Electromyography (EMG) signals from a nerve monitor with the position information from a surgical navigation system. In principle, EMG signals and the position information are merged with each other based on the distance-threshold relationship. The merged information can be used to control the power of active surgical instruments intelligently or to improve the surgeon's orientation in operating field during challenging interventions on temporal bones. One part of the described method for stimulation modeling was also verified in an experiment under simplified laboratory conditions. The results show an approximate agreement between the modeled and the measured distance-threshold relationship till 2 mm. The curve fitting of the measured and modeled data indicates that a quadratic relationship fits better in the data than a cubic.
AB - This article presents a new method for the data fusion of the intraoperative Electromyography (EMG) signals from a nerve monitor with the position information from a surgical navigation system. In principle, EMG signals and the position information are merged with each other based on the distance-threshold relationship. The merged information can be used to control the power of active surgical instruments intelligently or to improve the surgeon's orientation in operating field during challenging interventions on temporal bones. One part of the described method for stimulation modeling was also verified in an experiment under simplified laboratory conditions. The results show an approximate agreement between the modeled and the measured distance-threshold relationship till 2 mm. The curve fitting of the measured and modeled data indicates that a quadratic relationship fits better in the data than a cubic.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84870606234&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MFI.2012.6343028
DO - 10.1109/MFI.2012.6343028
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870606234
SN - 9781467325110
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems
SP - 287
EP - 292
BT - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, MFI 2012 - Conference Proceedings
T2 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, MFI 2012
Y2 - 13 September 2012 through 15 September 2012
ER -