Interventional planning of liver resections: an overview.
Liver cancer is the third most common type of cancer. Among available treatment options, a surgical resection offers the best prognosis for long-term survival. It is important that such a surgical procedure is carefully prepared. Modern computer technology offers convenient ways to simulate different resection scenarios and help to determine the best treatment for a given case. This paper provides a non-exhaustive overview of existing computer-based systems for interventional planning of liver resections. They are reviewed according to their medical use case, e.g. if they support typical or atypical resections.
Department of Cognitive Computing & Medical Imaging, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), 64283 Darmstadt, Germany. klaus.drechsler@igd.fraunhofer.de
Klaus
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Drechsler
Cristina
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Oyarzun Laura
Stefan
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Wesarg
D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000473:pathology