ArticleInternational journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery2025
An augmented reality overlay for navigated prostatectomy using fiducial-free 2D-3D registration.
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- Augmented reality in robotic urology: from 3D printed models to cognitive surgical systems. A systematic literature review.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Pooled it
- A bibliometric analysis of the robotic revolution in prostate cancer surgery: evolution, hotspots, and future directions.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Article
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purposeMarkerless navigation in minimally invasive surgery is still an unsolved challenge. Many proposed navigation systems for minimally invasive surgeries rely on stereoscopic images, while in clinical practice oftentimes monocular endoscopes are used. Combined with the lack of automatic video-based navigation systems for prostatectomies, this paper explores methods to tackle both research gaps at the same time for robot-assisted prostatectomies.
methodsIn order to realize a semi-automatic augmented reality overlay for navigated prostatectomy, the camera pose w.r.t. the prostate needs to be estimated. We developed a method where visual cues are drawn on top of the organ after an initial manual alignment, simultaneously creating matching landmarks on the 2D and 3D data. Starting from this key frame, the cues are then tracked in the endoscopic video. Both PnPRansac and differentiable rendering are then explored to perform 2D-3D registration for each frame.
resultsWe performed experiments on synthetic and in vivo data. On synthetic data differentiable rendering can achieve a median target registration error of 6.11 mm. Both PnPRansac and differentiable rendering are feasible methods for 2D-3D registration.
conclusionWe demonstrated a video-based markerless augmented reality overlay for navigated prostatectomy, using visual cues as an anchor.
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