Abstract
This paper presents recent work in segmenting surgical needles as seen under x-ray fluoroscopy. This work is part of developing a system for automatically aligning a surgical needle during minimally invasive interventions. The system incorporates a six degree-of-freedom robotic needle driver that is specifically designed for medical applications. The needle is segmented using methods from the Insight Software Toolkit (ITK), which provides a public domain and open source implementation of state-of-the-art registration and segmentation algorithms.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 698-701 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings |
| Volume | 1 |
| State | Published - 2003 |
| Event | A New Beginning for Human Health: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Cancun, Mexico Duration: Sep 17 2003 → Sep 21 2003 |
Keywords
- Fluoroscopy servoing
- Robotics
- Segmentation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics