Variation Based Dense 3D Reconstruction: Application on Monocular Mini-Laparoscopic Sequences

By Sven Painer

In his master thesis, Sven Painer develops, implements, and evaluates a method to reconstruct the liver surface from monocular mini-laparoscopic sequences. The principal focus of his research is to create a basis for helping clinicians to write reports with quantitative descriptions of the liver surface. A Structure from Motion approach is performed to do a sparse reconstruction of the liver surface and subsequently this information is used in a variation based dense 3D reconstruction. The algorithms are formulated in a causal way, enabling the implementation to be run in real-time on an adequate hardware platform. The results show a significant performance increase and pave the way to give clinicians a feedback during video capturing to improve the quality of the reconstruction in the near future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3658126973
• ISBN13: 9783658126971
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Springer Vieweg
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"