A unifying framework for accuracy analysis in image-guided surgery

Author

Kuhn, Michael H. ; Jablonowski, Marc ; Gieles, Paul ; Fuchs, Manfred ; Wischmann, Hans-A

Author_Institution

Dept. of Tech. Syst., Philips Res., Hamburg, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

238

Abstract

This paper presents a unifying framework for accuracy analysis in Image-Guided Surgery (IGS). It allows to represent IGS applications as a sequence of procedural or workflow steps for which a number of options exist which characterize the system under consideration. The ability to explicitly model the error contribution for each of the options in this framework of steps lays the foundation to a comparative analysis of different systems in terms of overall application error resulting from an error propagation analysis. The framework approach is applied to a number of system approaches from literature. One finding is that for IGS, the important step of image distortion correction for CT and MRI has been consistently neglected

Keywords

biomedical NMR; computerised tomography; error analysis; image registration; image segmentation; medical image processing; modelling; surgery; MRI; accuracy analysis; comparative analysis; computerised tomography; error contribution; error propagation analysis; image acquisition; image distortion correction; image registration; image-guided surgery; modelling; multimodality; procedural steps; segmentation; stereotactic operations; system approach; unifying framework; workflow steps; Biomedical imaging; Computed tomography; Error analysis; Focusing; Image analysis; Image segmentation; Instruments; Magnetic resonance imaging; Sequences; Surgery;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3811-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.656933

Filename

656933