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Organ motion and deformation are major obstacles hindering the introduction of image guidance into soft tissue surgery. Due to challenges with update rate, invasiveness and intra-operative complexity, there is currently no clinically established solution for deformation measurements on soft tissues. We present a soft tissue tracking approach based on single passive markers as part of a navigation system for open liver surgery. Such markers are minimally-invasive and allow for real-time organ motion measurements using available tracking systems. The absence of correspondence between position measurements over time and the sensitivity to other reflectors present within the workspace inhibit the direct clinical implementation of such technology. Hence, we remove measurement artifacts, establish marker correspondence over time, and achieve robustness against occlusions and presence of other reflecting objects. A thorough experimental evaluation demonstrates reliable motion tracking and motivates its use for deformation detection and respiratory gating in open liver surgery.
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Oliveira-Santos, T., Peterhans, M., Hofmann, S., Weber, S. (2011). Passive Single Marker Tracking for Organ Motion and Deformation Detection in Open Liver Surgery. In: Taylor, R.H., Yang, GZ. (eds) Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions. IPCAI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6689. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21504-9_15
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