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Applications of Image Processing in Laparoscopic Surgeries: An Overview

Applications of Image Processing in Laparoscopic Surgeries: An Overview
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Author(s): Toktam Khatibi (Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Iran), Mohammad Mehdi Sepehri (Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Iran), Pejman Shadpour (Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Iran)and Seyed Hessameddin Zegordi (Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Iran)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 27
Source title: Handbook of Research on Data Science for Effective Healthcare Practice and Administration
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Elham Akhond Zadeh Noughabi (University of Calgary, Canada), Bijan Raahemi (University of Ottawa, Canada), Amir Albadvi (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran)and Behrouz H. Far (University of Calgary, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2515-8.ch014

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Abstract

Laparoscopy is a minimally-invasive surgery using a few small incisions on the patient's body to insert the tools and telescope and conduct the surgical operation. Laparoscopic video processing can be used to extract valuable knowledge and help the surgeons. We discuss the present and possible future role of processing laparoscopic videos. The various applications are categorized for image processing algorithms in laparoscopic surgeries including preprocessing video frames by laparoscopic image enhancement, telescope related applications (telescope position estimation, telescope motion estimation and compensation), surgical instrument related applications (surgical instrument detection and tracking), soft tissue related applications (soft tissue segmentation and deformation tracking) and high level applications such as safe actions in laparoscopic videos, summarization of laparoscopic videos, surgical task recognition and extracting knowledge using fusion techniques. Some different methods have been proposed previously for each of the mentioned applications using image processing.

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