Computer Assisted Surgery and Medical Image Analysis Computer Vision Group Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Surgical Planning Lab Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School
Computer assisted surgery • Goal: – Use computer vision techniques to plan and guide surgical interventions, by giving the surgeon the ability to sense critical information that is not normally visible to her • How? – Capture models of patient anatomy and function – Use to guide surgeon’s actions
Conventional Surgery: See the surface Provided by Nakajima, Atsumi et al.
Image Guided Surgery: See under the surface Provided by Leventon et al.
Intelligently aiding the surgeon • Convert medical images into models of patient’s: – Structural anatomy – Functional anatomy
Central Vessels common carotid artery subclavian artery brachio cephalic trunc pulmonary trunk pulmonary veins aorta Courtesy of Lorigo