Towards real-time tissue surface tracking with a surface-based extended kalman filter for robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery

The use of registered intra-operative to pre-operative imaging has been proposed for many medical interventions, with the goal of providing more informed guidance to the physician. The registration may be difficult to carry out in real-time.Therefore, it is often necessary to track the motion of the...

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Main Author: Wang, Weiqi
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46992