A medical Component-based Framework for Image Guided Surgery
This chapter introduces MedicalStudio, a composable, open-source easily evolvable cross-platform framework targeted to medical interventions and equally attentive to research and therapeutic concerns. It consists of a commonly framework for planning, simu
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A medical Component-based Framework for Image Guided Surgery Daniela G. Trevisan1,2, Vincent Nicolas1, Benoit Macq1, Luciana P. Nedel2
1 Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Université catholique de Louvain, (UCL) Place du Levant 2, Bat. Stevin, 1348 Louvain-le-Neuve, Belgium 2 Instituto de Informática – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Caixa Postal 15.064 – 91.501-970 – Porto Alegre – RS – Brazil [email protected], [email protected]
12.1 Introduction Advances in scanning technology and other data collection systems provide a wide spectrum of useful and complementary information about a patient’s status to research and clinical domains. To combine these different types of information into a coherent presentation assuring usable and cognitively adequate interaction within the Operating Room becomes extremely difficult. More sophisticated methods of analysis, guidance and interaction need to be created to achieve these objectives. Concerning some of the existents systems for surgical planning and intraoperative guidance, 3D Slicer [465] has been one of the first open-source application enabling data fusion and interventional imaging. Julius [466] is another extensible, cross-platform software framework providing a complete medical processing pipeline, but more targeted to visualization and analysis, whereas IGSTK [467] is the latest framework currently under development for open-source componentbased rapid prototyping of image guided surgery applications. Research efforts in Image Guided Surgery (IGS) systems and image processing are investigating how to leverage on such techniques to develop more effective, integrated solutions for the planning, simulation, and finally intra-operative guidance systems either based on a navigation concept or including human-computer interaction systems. As pointed out in [468], other problems regarding the use of new technologies are the lack of compatible and interchangeable equipments and limited communication among surgeons and others in the team especially during surgical procedures. MedicalStudio proposes to address these issues by realizing a component-based framework targeted to medical interventions and equally attentive to research and therapeutic concerns. It consists of a unique framework for planning, simulating and performing interventional procedures assuring more compatibility within the surgical workflow. Its modular architecture can easily manage abstractions of D. Tzovaras (Ed.) Multimodal User Interfaces. Signals and Communication Technology DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78345-9, © Springer 2008
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hardware peripherals and directly make data available from them. Components developed in collaboration with several research centres and medical clinics have shown the promising dissemination and versatility of this medical framework in various disciplines. The chapter is structured as follows. In section 2 we first describe the component-based architecture. In th
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