title: Temporal matching in endoscopic images for remote-controlled robotic surgery.
abstract: Temporal matching is applied in the frame of the formation of high-level entities in remote-controlled robotic surgery. The objective is to track tumor boundaries over time to improve the segmentation stage in each image of the sequence to facilitate the tracking and localization of the tumor. It makes use of an attributed string matching technique to find the correspondence between tumor boundaries over time. Relationships are then exploited to reconstitute the tumor boundaries and remove the inconsistencies coming from the detection errors. Input data are free form shapes of different length representing the tumor boundary, extracted at a previous stage.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Biomedical Informatics and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518067, China.
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wolters
authors.forename: Ulf
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Gustafsson