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Real time medical instrument detection and tracking in microsurgery

  • Mohamed Alsheakhali
  • , Mehmet Yigitsoy
  • , Abouzar Eslami
  • , Nassir Navab
  • Technical University of Munich
  • Carl Zeiss

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Abstract

The detection of surgical instruments in real time is one of the most challenging problems in retinal microsurgery operations. The instrument’s deformable shape, the presence of its shadow, and the illumination variations are the main contributors for such challenge. A new approach for the detection of the tip of the surgical tool is proposed, which can handle the shape deformation, and the presence of the its shadow or the presence of blood vessels. The approach starts by segmenting the tool-like objects using the L*a*b color model. One of these segments is selected as the target tool based on tool’s shaft model. The probabilistic Hough transform was used to get the structural information which can guide us to optimize the best possible candidates’ locations to fit the tool model. The detected tool tip and its slope are propagated between the frames in the images sequence. Experimental results demonstrate the high accuracy of this technique in addition to achieve the real time requirements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBildverarbeitung fur die Medizin 2015
Subtitle of host publicationAlgorithmen - Systeme - Anwendungen, Proceedings des Workshops, 2015
EditorsThomas Martin Deserno, Thomas Tolxdorff, Heinz Handels, Hans-Peter Meinzer
PublisherKluwer Academic Publishers
Pages185-190
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9783662462232
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
EventWorkshops on Image Processing for Medicine,2015:Algorthim-Systems-Applications - Lubeck, Germany
Duration: 15 Mar 201517 Mar 2015

Publication series

NameInformatik aktuell
ISSN (Print)1431-472X

Conference

ConferenceWorkshops on Image Processing for Medicine,2015:Algorthim-Systems-Applications
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityLubeck
Period15/03/1517/03/15

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