Anja Groch

TL;DR: The state-of-the-art methods for optical intra-operative 3D reconstruction in laparoscopic surgery is reviewed and the technical challenges and future perspectives towards clinical translation are discussed.

TL;DR: This comprehensive in vitro study investigated reconstruction accuracy using different organs with various shape and texture and also tested reconstruction robustness with respect to a number of factors like the pose of the endoscope as well as the amount of blood or smoke present in the scene.

TL;DR: Surgical robots could also employ 3D quantification of organ shape and structure during minimally invasive surgery to solve navigation and visualization problems in MIS, and help to develop advanced surgical procedures such as natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery.

TL;DR: The evaluation suggests that the ToF technique has high potential as means for intraoperative endoscopic surface registration as well as robust and fast algorithms for establishing correspondences between multiple images of the same scene.

TL;DR: A new approach to on-patient visualization of 3D medical images, which combines the concept of augmented reality (AR) with an intuitive interaction scheme is presented, which can be used for intervention planning, anatomy teaching and various other applications that require intuitive visualization of3D data.