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Real-time online adaption for robust instrument tracking and pose estimation

  • Nicola Rieke
  • , David Joseph Tan
  • , Federico Tombari
  • , Josué Page Vizcáıno
  • , Chiara Amat di San Filippo
  • , Abouzar Eslami
  • , Nassir Navab
  • Technical University of Munich
  • DIBINEM, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
  • Carl Zeiss
  • Johns Hopkins University

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Abstract

We propose a novel method for instrument tracking in Retinal Microsurgery (RM) which is apt to withstand the challenges of RM visual sequences in terms of varying illumination conditions and blur. At the same time,the method is general enough to deal with different background and tool appearances. The proposed approach relies on two random forests to,respectively,track the surgery tool and estimate its 2D pose. Robustness to photometric distortions and blur is provided by a specific online refinement stage of the offline trained forest,which makes our method also capable of generalizing to unseen backgrounds and tools. In addition,a peculiar framework for merging together the predictions of tracking and pose is employed to improve the overall accuracy. Remarkable advantages in terms of accuracy over the state-of-the-art are shown on two benchmarks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2016 - 19th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsSebastian Ourselin, Leo Joskowicz, Mert R. Sabuncu, William Wells, Gozde Unal
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages422-430
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319467191
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event1st International Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, SASHIMI 2016 held in conjunction with 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2016 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 21 Oct 201621 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9900 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, SASHIMI 2016 held in conjunction with 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2016
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period21/10/1621/10/16

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