2013 Project Week:US IGT
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Key Investigators
- Matthew Toews, BWH - Harvard Medical School
- William Wells, BWH - Harvard Medical School
- Stephen Aylward, Kitware
- Tamas Ungi, Queens University
Project Description
Objective
- Develop a system to use calibrated, tracked ultrasound to intra-operatively track and visualize pre-operatively defined neurosurgical targets.
- Challenges: 2D-3D registration, intra-operative deformation and missing tissue, inter-modal image registration.
Approach, Plan
- Data preparation: Ultrasound and probe tracking information (PLUS system).
- Code development: pre-op to intra-op image matching using scale-invariant features.