Development of Laparoscopic Data-Fusion System Based on an Intraoperative Organ Shape

Abstract

Laparoscopic surgery forces surgeons to operate with mechanical and visual constraints. Surgeons are required to intuit a sense of orientation in the abdominal cavity solely from the memorized anatomical structure. Laparoscopic surgery would be technologically improved if surgeons were provided with the 3D shape of the internal geometry including with texture information in an intuitive manner. In this paper, intraoperative real-time 3D visualization and Data-Fusion using this organ geometry verifies the functionality in an in-vivo experiment.