Matching Of Medical Images For Computed And Robot Assisted Surgery

Abstract

This paper adresses the application of matching techniques to Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery, where we desire to use in the surgical theater a treatment planning based on multi-modal data (mainly pre-operative images). We present a methodology based on geometrical matching of reference anatomical surfaces. Then we describe a new general method that enables to perform 3-D / 2-D matching and 3-D / 3-D matching with fast computation. Results are illustrated.