Real-Time Fusion of Ultrasound and Gamma Probe for Navigated Localization of Liver Metastases Export

@incollection{Wendler07, abstract = {Liver metastases are an advanced stage of several types of cancer, usually treated with surgery. Intra-operative localization of these lesions is currently facilitated by intra-operative ultrasound (IOUS) and palpation, yielding a high rate of false positives due to benign abnormal regions. In this paper we present the integration of functional nuclear information from a gamma probe with IOUS, to provide a synchronized, real-time visualization that facilitates the detection of active metastases intra-operatively. We evaluate the system in an ex-vivo setup employing a group of physicians and medical technicians and show that the addition of functional imaging improves the accuracy of localizing and identifying malignant and benign lesions significantly. Furthermore we are able to demonstrate that the inclusion of an advanced, augmented visualization provides more reliability and confidence on classifying these lesions in the presented evaluation setup.}, author = {Wendler, T. and Feuerstein, M. and Traub, J. and Lasser, T. and Vogel, J. and Daghighian, F. and Ziegler, S. and Navab, N.}, citeulike-article-id = {4455681}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75759-7_31}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/m067q560080hl8lx}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-75759-7_31}, journal = {Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2007}, keywords = {fusion, liver, navigation, real-time, tumor-detection, ultrasound}, pages = {252--260}, posted-at = {2009-05-03 21:28:21}, priority = {2}, title = {Real-Time Fusion of Ultrasound and Gamma Probe for Navigated Localization of Liver Metastases}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75759-7_31}, year = {2007} }

TY - CHAP ID - Wendler07 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4455681 N2 - Liver metastases are an advanced stage of several types of cancer, usually treated with surgery. Intra-operative localization of these lesions is currently facilitated by intra-operative ultrasound (IOUS) and palpation, yielding a high rate of false positives due to benign abnormal regions. In this paper we present the integration of functional nuclear information from a gamma probe with IOUS, to provide a synchronized, real-time visualization that facilitates the detection of active metastases intra-operatively. We evaluate the system in an ex-vivo setup employing a group of physicians and medical technicians and show that the addition of functional imaging improves the accuracy of localizing and identifying malignant and benign lesions significantly. Furthermore we are able to demonstrate that the inclusion of an advanced, augmented visualization provides more reliability and confidence on classifying these lesions in the presented evaluation setup. JF - Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2007 EP - 260 TI - Real-Time Fusion of Ultrasound and Gamma Probe for Navigated Localization of Liver Metastases SP - 252 KW - fusion KW - liver KW - navigation KW - real-time KW - tumor-detection KW - ultrasound AU - Wendler, T AU - Feuerstein, M AU - Traub, J AU - Lasser, T AU - Vogel, J AU - Daghighian, F AU - Ziegler, S AU - Navab, N PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75759-7_31 ER -