title: 3D registration through pseudo x-ray image generation.
abstract: One of the less effective processes within current Computer Assisted Surgery systems, utilizing pre-operative planning, is the registration of the plan with the intra-operative position of the patient. The technique described in this paper requires no digitisation of anatomical features or fiducial markers but instead relies on image matching between pseudo and real x-ray images generated by a virtual and a real image intensifier respectively. The technique is an extension to the work undertaken by Weese [1].
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Hull, UK.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Domergue
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Viant
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003199:Computer Systems; D005471:Fluoroscopy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014584:User-Computer Interface