Hauptseminar: Tracking and Navigation for Computer Aided Surgery

Nassir Navab, Stefanie Demirci, Tobias Reichl

Type: Advanced Seminar Course Module IN8901
Type: Master Seminar Module IN2107
Type: Seminar Module IN0014
SWS: 2+0
ECTS: 4 Credits
Course Language: English
TUM-Online: Tracking and Navigation for Computer Aided Surgery

Content

Navigation systems for computer aided surgery promise benefits for patient through higher accuracy and shorter operation time and benefits for surgeons through reduction of cognitive workload and greater confidence. Modern tracking technologies enable new imaging modalities or extensions of existing ones, e.g. in the form of freehand SPECT or freehand 3D ultrasound, and they are crucial for position and orientation measurement of instruments, imaging devices, patient, surgeons and other objects. In this seminar, different dedicated tracking technologies are going to be presented and discussed, as well as methods for image-based object recognition and tracking. Their application in different medical procedures will be shown, as well as their broader context of navigation, visualisation, and medical augmented reality.

Prerequisites: none mandatory, but knowledge in computer-assisted interventions is of advantage, e.g. from lecture "Computer Aided Medical Procedures".

Registration

Registration is done via TUM-Online, cf. course details in TUM-Online.

Schedule

Date	Time	Topic	Material
Mon, Oct 24 2011	16:00-18:00	Introduction, Background (Stefanie Demirci, Tobias Reichl)	Tracking-Slides,  Navigation-Slides,  Movies
Mon, Dec 5 2011	16:00-18:00	EM tracking (Patrick Palacin, Tobias Reichl)	Literature
		Optical tracking (Kanishka Sharma, Tobias Reichl)	Literature,  Slides
		Camera calibration (Nader Ganaba, Tobias Reichl)	Literature,  Slides,  Essay
Fri, Dec 9 2011	17:30-19:30	Video/Laparoscopic Applications (Christian Eckstein, Stefanie Demirci)	Literature
		CamC (Hemal Naik, Tobias Reichl)	Literature
		Registration methods (Eleni Siampli, Tobias Reichl)	Literature
		Fluoroscopic Applications (Rim Zahir, Stefanie Demirci)	Literature
Mon, Dec 12 2011	16:00-18:00	4D Reconstruction (Deepak Murali, Stefanie Demirci)	Literature
		Workflow (Benjamin Schmidt, Stefanie Demirci)	Literature
Tue, Dec 13 2011	18:00-20:00	Medical Image Visualization (Alexander Rein, Stefanie Demirci)	Literature
		Navigated Bronchoscopy (Milena Abrasheva, Tobias Reichl)	Literature
		Endovascular Navigation (Julia Götz, Stefanie Demirci)	Literature
Thu, Dec 15 2011	18:00-20:00	Navigation in Brain Surgery (Matthias Wieczorek, Tobias Reichl)	-
		Orthopedic Surgery Navigation (Anastasia Tseneklidou, Stefanie Demirci)	Literature
		Interactive Patient Education (Johannes Schmidt, Stefanie Demirci)	Literature
		Medical AR (Monika Nill, Stefanie Demirci)	Literature

Essay/Talk

Presentation (about 30-45min) followed by a discussion. Essay (10 pages) including all references used. The essay and presentation have to be done in English for Hauptseminars and German or English for Proseminars. The essay must be written in your own words and not by copy and paste.

For Windows users:

• install miktex - TeX implementation for Microsoft Windows
• install TeXnicCenter - integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents on Microsoft Windows
• Use the The Not So Short Introduction to LaTex to get started with LaTex.
• Use this latex template for the essay.

Your talk:

• Please use this PPT template.
• How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science: A Speaker's Guide for Students by Ian Parberry
• The outline should be sent to the supervisor four weeks before the presentation.
• The presentation slides and essay should be finalized and discussed with the supervisor one week before the presentation.
• The essay is due at the day of the last presentation of the seminar.

Literature and Helpful Links

A lot of scientific publications can be found online.

The following list may help you to find some further information on your particular topic:

• Microsoft Academic Search
• Google Scholar
• CiteSeer
• CiteULike
• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

Some publishers:

• ScienceDirect (Elsevier Journals)
• IEEE Journals
• ACM Digital Library

Libraries (online and offline):

• http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/ (Elektronische Zeitschriften Bibliothek)
• Verbundkatalog des Bibliotheksverbundes Bayern (BVB)
• Computer ORG
• http://www.ub.tum.de/ (TUM Library)
  • To get access onto the electronic library, see http://www.ub.tum.de/medien/ejournals/readme.html
  • "proxy.biblio.tu-muenchen.de" mit Port 8080 (nur fuer http). Damit klappen zumindest portal.acm.org und computer.org meistens
• Various proceedings of conferences in our AR-Lab, 03.13.036 (These proceedings are not for lending!)

Some further hints for working with references:

• JabRef is a Java program for comfortable working with Bibtex literature databases. Handy feature: if you know the PubMed ID for an article, JabRef can import data from there (via "Web Search/Medline").
• Mendeley is a cross-platform program for organising your references.

If you find useful resources that are not already listed here, please tell us, so we can add them for others. Thanks.