1. i3PosNet: Instrument Pose Estimation from X-Ray in temporal bone surgery
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Kügler, David, Sehring, Jannik, Stefanov, Andrei, Stenin, Igor, Kristin, Julia, Klenzner, Thomas, Schipper, Jörg, and Mukhopadhyay, Anirban
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Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing - Abstract
Purpose: Accurate estimation of the position and orientation (pose) of surgical instruments is crucial for delicate minimally invasive temporal bone surgery. Current techniques lack in accuracy and/or line-of-sight constraints (conventional tracking systems) or expose the patient to prohibitive ionizing radiation (intra-operative CT). A possible solution is to capture the instrument with a c-arm at irregular intervals and recover the pose from the image. Methods: i3PosNet infers the position and orientation of instruments from images using a pose estimation network. Said framework considers localized patches and outputs pseudo-landmarks. The pose is reconstructed from pseudo-landmarks by geometric considerations. Results: We show i3PosNet reaches errors less than 0.05mm. It outperforms conventional image registration-based approaches reducing average and maximum errors by at least two thirds. i3PosNet trained on synthetic images generalizes to real x-rays without any further adaptation. Conclusion: The translation of Deep Learning based methods to surgical applications is difficult, because large representative datasets for training and testing are not available. This work empirically shows sub-millimeter pose estimation trained solely based on synthetic training data., Comment: Accepted at International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery pending publication
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- 2018
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