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ArticleInternational journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery2020

Deep learning-based fetoscopic mosaicking for field-of-view expansion.

Sophia Bano, Francisco Vasconcelos, Marcel Tella-Amo, George Dwyer, Caspar Gruijthuijsen, Emmanuel Vander Poorten, Tom Vercauteren, Sebastien Ourselin, Jan Deprest, Danail Stoyanov

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Article in International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Learning-based keypoint registration for fetoscopic mosaicking.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2024
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  4. Toward a navigation framework for fetoscopy.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2023
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  7. Regenerative medicine: prenatal approaches.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2022
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  9. Robust fetoscopic mosaicking from deep learned flow fields.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2022
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  11. Deep homography estimation in dynamic surgical scenes for laparoscopic camera motion extraction.Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering. Imaging & visualization · 2022
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  12. Deep Learning in Biomedical Optics.Lasers in surgery and medicine · 2021
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  13. Real-Time Nonrigid Mosaicking of Laparoscopy Images.IEEE transactions on medical imaging · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sophia BanoWellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) and Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK. sophia.bano@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1329-4565
Francisco VasconcelosWellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) and Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK.
Marcel Tella-AmoWellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) and Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK.
George DwyerWellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) and Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK.
Caspar GruijthuijsenDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium.
Emmanuel Vander PoortenDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium.
Tom VercauterenSchool of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
Sebastien OurselinSchool of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
Jan DeprestDepartment of Development and Regeneration, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Danail StoyanovWellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) and Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK.
Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences · GBKU Leuven · BEKing's College London · GB

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/P012841/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/P027938/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/R004080/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council NS/A000027/1H2020 Future and Emerging Technologies GA 863146Medtronic/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair RCSRF1819/7/34Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies CiET1819/2/36Wellcome/EPSRC 203145Z/16/ZWellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeFetoscopic laser photocoagulation is a minimally invasive surgical procedure used to treat twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), which involves localization and ablation of abnormal vascular connections on the placenta to regulate the blood flow in both fetuses. This procedure is particularly challenging due to the limited field of view, poor visibility, occasional bleeding, and poor image quality. Fetoscopic mosaicking can help in creating an image with the expanded field of view which could facilitate the clinicians during the TTTS procedure.

methodsWe propose a deep learning-based mosaicking framework for diverse fetoscopic videos captured from different settings such as simulation, phantoms, ex vivo, and in vivo environments. The proposed mosaicking framework extends an existing deep image homography model to handle video data by introducing the controlled data generation and consistent homography estimation modules. Training is performed on a small subset of fetoscopic images which are independent of the testing videos.

resultsWe perform both quantitative and qualitative evaluations on 5 diverse fetoscopic videos (2400 frames) that captured different environments. To demonstrate the robustness of the proposed framework, a comparison is performed with the existing feature-based and deep image homography methods.

conclusionThe proposed mosaicking framework outperformed existing methods and generated meaningful mosaic, while reducing the accumulated drift, even in the presence of visual challenges such as specular highlights, reflection, texture paucity, and low video resolution.

Indexed as

Deep LearningComputer SimulationFemaleFetofetal TransfusionFetoscopyHumansLaser CoagulationPhantoms, ImagingPlacentaPregnancyDeep learningFetoscopySequential mosaickingSurgical visionTwin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS)

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PMID32808148
PMCPMC7603466
OpenAlexW3066411979

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