Medical image processing led to a major improvement of patient care: the 3D modeling of patients from their CT-scan or MRI provides an improved surgical planning and simulation allows to train the surgical gesture before carrying it out. These two preoperative steps can be used intra-operatively with the development of augmented reality (AR). In this paper, we present the tools we developed to provide our ?rst prototypal AR guiding system for abdominal surgery.
Citation:
L. Soler, S. Nicolau, J. Schmid, C. Koehl, J. Marescaux, X. Pennec, N. Ayache, "Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Digestive Surgery," ismar, pp.278-279, Third IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR'04), 2004