Real-Time Visual Tracking of the Surgeon's Face for Laparoscopic Surgery

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We have developed an image-based human-machine interface that tracks the surgeon’s face robustly in real-time(30Hz) and does not require to use any body-contacted sensing devices. Based on this face tracker we have developed a new robotic laparoscope positioning system for solo surgery. Our system completely frees the surgeon’s hands and feet from the laparoscope guiding task. To evaluate the performance of the proposed system and its applicability to clinical use, an in vivo experiment was carried out in which a surgeon used the system to perform a laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a pig.

Atsushi Nishikawa, Toshinori Hosoi, Kengo Koara, D

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Body-contacted Sensing Devices | Image-based Human-machine Interface | Laparoscope Guiding Task | Medical Imaging | MICCAI 2001 |

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Added	30 Jul 2010
Updated	30 Jul 2010
Type	Conference
Year	2001
Where	MICCAI
Authors	Atsushi Nishikawa, Toshinori Hosoi, Kengo Koara, Daiji Negoro, Ayae Hikita, Shuichi Asano, Fumio Miyazaki, Mitsugu Sekimoto, Yasuhiro Miyake, Masayoshi Yasui, Morito Monden

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Real-Time Visual Tracking of the Surgeon's Face for Laparoscopic Surgery

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