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CAS clinical applications
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Neurosurgery
Orthopaedics
Maxillofacial, craneofacial, and dental surgery
Laparoscopic and endoscopic surgeries
Radiotherapy
Specific procedures in ophtalmology,
othorhinolaringology, etc.
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Elements of CAS systems
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Technical elements of CAS systems
1. Medical images
2. Medical image visualization
3. Segmentation and modeling
4. Virtual and augmented reality, tele-surgery
5. Preoperative analysis and planning
6. Image and robot registration
7. Medical mechanical and robotics systems
8. Real-time tracking
9. Safety, man-machine interface, human factors
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Key parameters for understanding and
comparing solutions
• How many procedures are performed yearly?
• What is the rate of complications? What are their
causes?
• In what aspects can a CAS system help?
• Does it address part of a clinically important
problem?
• What stage is the system in: in-vitro, cadaver,
clinical trials?
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1. Medical Images
Most common imaging modalities
• Film X-ray, Digital X-ray, Fluoroscopy, Digital
Substraction Angiography (DSA)
• Ultrasound -- 2D and 2.5D (stack of slices)
• Computed Tomography (CT)
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Nuclear Medicine (NM)
– PET -- Positron Emission Tomography
– SPECT -- Single Photon Emission Tomography
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Medical images: characteristics (1)
• Preoperative or intraoperative use
– depends on the size and location of imaging machine
• Dimensionality: 2D, 2.5D, 2D+time
– projection, cross section, stack of projections, time
sequence
• Image quality
– pixel intensity and spatial resolution
– amount of noise; signal/noise ratio
– spatial distortions and intensity bias
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Medical images: characteristics (2)
• Field of view
• Radiation to patient and to surgeon
• Functional or anatomical imaging
– neurological activity, blood flow, cardiac activity
• What it’s best at for
– bone, soft tissue, fetus, surface/deep tumors, etc
• Clinical use
– diagnosis, surgical, navigation,
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X-ray images
• Measure absorption of x-ray radiation from source
to set of receptors
• Film X-ray has very high resolution
Gray value proportional
to radiation energy
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X-ray Fluoroscopy
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Fluoroscopic images
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X-ray image properties
• Traditional, cheap, widely available
• Two-dimensional projections (at least two
required)
• High resolution, low noise (more fluoroscope)
– film size, 64K gray levels
– fluoroscopic images: TV quality, 20cm field of view
• Relatively low radiation
• Bone and metal images very well
• Fluoroscopy used for intraoperative navigation
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Ultrasound imaging (US)
• Measure refraction properties of an ultrasound
wave as it hits tissue
• No radiation
• Poor resolution, distortion, noise
• Low penetration properties
• One 2D slice or several slices (2.5D)
• Relatively cheap and easy to use
• Preoperative and intraoperative use
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Ultrasound imaging
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Computed Tomography (CT)
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Computed Tomography Images
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Computed Tomography Principle
X-rays
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Computed Tomography Properties
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512x512 12bit gray level images; pixel size 0.5mm
slice interval 1-10mm depending on anatomy
50-200 slices per study
noise in the presence of metal (blooming)
All digital, printed on X-ray film
Acquisition 1sec/slice (spiral models)
15mins for image reconstruction
Costs about $250-750K, each study $500
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Similar principle and construction than CT
machine, but works on magnetic properties of
matter
– magnetic fields of 0.1 to 4 Teslas
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Similar image quality characteristics as CT
Excellent resolution for soft tissue
Costs $1-2M, each study $1,000
Open MR: intraoperative device (only 15 to date)
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Magnetic Resonance Images
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Nuclear Medicine Imaging (NMI)
• Same slices principle
• Source of photons or positrons is injected in the
body. Shortly after, radiation of metabolism is
measured
• Poor spatial resolution
• Expensive machine AND installation ($4-5M)
• Expensive and time-consuming
• Provides functional info no other source does
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Nuclear medicine images
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Image Fusion: MRI and NMI
MRI (anatomy)
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NMI (functional)
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Video images from within the body
• Used in laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery
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Main medical imaging modalities
X-ray X-ray Fluoro US US
Video CT MRI NMR Open
Film Digital
(2D) (2.5D)
MR
Pre/Intraop
2D/2.5D
Resolution
Radiation
Anatomy
Procedure
Establish a comparative table of modality properties
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The imaging pipeline
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2. Medical image visualization
Enhance diagnosis by improving the visual
interpretation of medical data
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3D visualization of complex structures
image correlation and fusion
quantitative measurements and comparisons
visualization of medical and CAD data
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Medical image visualization
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Visualization: Technical needs
• image enhancing and noise reduction
• image interpolation: images from new viewpoints
• 3D visualization from 2.5D data
– volume rendering: display voxels and opacity values
– surface rendering: explicit reconstruction of surface
• 3D modeling from 2.5D data
• 2D and 3D segmentation
• 3D+T visualization (beating heart)
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Medical image visualization
• Much activity! Radiologists are the experts
• Commercial packages
– 3DVIEWNIX, ANALYZE, IMIPS
• Main technical topics:
– 3D volume rendering techniques
– 3D image filtering and enhancement
– surface construction algorithms: Marching cubes, etc.
• Sources: chapters 3,9, and 10 in textbook
• Related fields: computer graphics, image processing
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3. Segmentation and modeling
Extract clinically useful information
for a given task or procedure
• Isolation of relevant anatomical structures based
on pixel properties
• Model creation for the next computational task
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real-time interaction and visualization
simulation
registration, matching,
morphing
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Segmentation and modeling
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Segmentation and modeling:
technical needs
• Segmentation:
– landmark feature detection
– isosurface construction (Marching cubes)
– contour extraction, region identification
• Modeling:
– points, anatomical landmarks, surface ridges
– surfaces as polygon meshes, surface splines
– model simplification methods (Alligator, Wrapper)
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Segmentation and modeling
• Medical images have very special needs!
• Commercial packages
– 3DVIEWNIX, ANALYZE, IMIPS
• Main technical topics:
– Volumetric segmentation techniques for CT, MRI
– 2D and 3D segmentation with deformable elements
– surface and model simplification algorithms
• Sources: chapters 4 and 8 in textbook
• Related fields: image processing, computer vision
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4. Virtual and augmented reality
Use images to create or enhance
a surgical situation
• Create a virtual model for viewing during
surgery
• Project the model on the patient or integrate with
surgeon’s view
• Useful for intraoperative anatomy exploration
and manipulation
• Telesurgery systems
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Virtual and augmented reality
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Virtual and augmented reality
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Part manipulation, visual and sensory feedback
Interaction devices: goggles, gloves, etc
Only a handful of systems exist
Main technical topics:
– a couple of the working systems; simulators
– telesurgery systems
• Sources: chapters 14 and 15 in textbook
• Related fields: computer graphics
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5. Preoperative analysis and planning
Use images and models to assist surgeons in
planning a surgery and evaluate options
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Task and procedure dependent
Spatial and volume measurements
Stress and fracture analysis
Implant and tool selection and positioning
Surgical approach planning: bone rearrangement,
angle evaluation, radiation dose planning, etc
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Preoperative analysis and planning
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Preoperative analysis and planning
• About a dozen planners exist for different
procedures
• Main technical topics:
– planning systems for orthopaedics, neurosurgery
– application of engineering analysis techniques: finiteelement methods, stress analysis, etc
• Sources: chapters 11, 25, 33, 41, 52--56in textbook
• Related fields: CAD, computational geometry,
engineering analysis
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6. Image and robot registration
Establish a quantitative relation between
different refererence frames
• Define correspondance features
– point-to-point, point-to-line, surface-to-surface
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Establish correspondances between features
Establish a similarity measure
Formulate and solve dissimilarity reduction problem
Related tasks: image fusion, morphing, atlas
matching
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Multimodal registration problems
• Great differences depending on
– the type of data to be matched
– the anatomy that is being imaged
– the specific clinical requirements of procedures
• Feature selection and extraction:
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landmarks and surfaces, contours and surfaces in
Manual vs. automatic feature selection, pairing
Rigid vs. deformable registration
Nearly similar vs. dissimilar images
Noiseless vs. noisy images (outlier removal)
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Registration chain example
Infrared tracker
Tracker
CT
X-rays
Instruments
Patient
3D surface model
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Image and robot registration
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Rich topic of very great importance!
Types of registration methods vary widely
Main technical topics:
rigid registration methods: three points and more
– deformable registration: local and global methods
– intensity-based registration
• Sources: chapters 5-7 in textbook, many papers
Book on Medical Image Registration
• Related fields: vision, robotics
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7. Medical robotics devices
Semi-active and active mechanical
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Task and procedure dependent
Accurate, steady, and repeatable 3D positioning
Navigation and localization aids
Cutting and milling, biopsies
Key issues are:
– kinematic design, trajectory planner
– controller, safety provisions
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Medical robotics devices
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Medical robotics devices
• Mostly passive and semiactive devices
• Rich topic of very great importance!
• Main technical topics:
– compare features and functionalities of systems
– discuss and compare design considerations
– devices for specific surgeries laparoscopy)
• Sources: chapters 16-18, 22, 29, 34, 39, 45, 47, and 48
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• Related fields: robotics, mechatronics
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8. Real-Time tracking devices
Hardware to follow in real time the precise position and
orientation of anatomy and instruments during surgery
• Ideally, an accurate Global Positioning System!
• Current technologies offer only partial solution
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video: follow known objects
optical: follow light-emitting diodes
magnetic: measure the variation of
acoustic: works like a radar
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Optical and video tracking devices
camera
instrument
Passive markers
Instrument has infrared
LEDs attached to it
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What kind of accuracy?
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9. Safety, man-machine interfaces
• Medical systems have very stringent safety
requirements
• Reported cases of radiation overdose due to
faulty system design
• Important issues in man-machine interfaces
• Ideas for presentations
– the radiotherapy accident
– chapters 12-15 and 19 in textbook
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10. Systems integration
• Complete systems that address specific clinical
problems in domains
• Use available technology to develop the system
• The hard part: make it all work!
• Main technical topics:
– systems in orthopaedics, neurosurgery, etc
• Sources: chapters in each section of
• Related fields: all!
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