Interactive Registration and Visualization of Cardiac Video and Angiography

Preoperative planning of surgical interventions is common in clinical practice. Multiple imaging modalities are used to plan the intervention and to support the surgeon in localizing the interesting area. In case of coronary artery bypass grafting, invasive cardiac catheterization is state of the art. Nevertheless, a missing link exists most often in the availability of the planning data at the point of care (PoC) where the transfer of the planning data is done notional by the surgeon. As there are many cases for which this procedure is sufficient, an advanced support for navigation would be helpful in complex scenarios.

Advanced and Augmented Visualization for Cardiac Surgery

MISS – Interactive Registration and Visualization of Cardiac Video and Angiography
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MISS – Fig. 1
MISS – Interactive Registration and Visualization of Cardiac Video and Angiography
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MISS – Fig. 2

With the project “MISS“ (“Minimal Invasive Smart Suture“), the Fraunhofer IIS has developed an approach, where preoperative images and planning data can be provided during the intervention.

A video view of the organ of interest, in this case the heart, is recorded during the intervention and is displayed together with the preoperative acquired angiography images at the point of care.

The surgeon can interactively set distinct point-correspondences between both modalities (cf. Fig. 1). These landmarks are used to perform image registration to map the preoperative images (angiography) onto the cardiac video (cf. Fig. 2).

Due to the movements of the heart beating, breathing and the intervention itself, the landmark points in the live view might become invalid after some time.

To meet this challenge and to release the task of continuous interaction, those landmark points in the video are tracked automatically, hence yielding a continuous basis for the registration and augmentation of angiography onto cardiac video.

As a result of this research project, an interactive tool has been developed, which supports an advanced and augmented visualization for cardiac surgery and supports the orientation of the surgeon. The tool is also applicable to alternative scenarios with similar problems.

Publications

  • Wittenberg, T.; Drechsler, K.; Kaltenbacher, D.; Friedl, S.; Reis, C.; Sakas, G.; Stallkamp, J.; Rotinat, C.; Perrot, Y.; Kondruweit, M.: MISS Heart: Assisting systems for Minimal Invasive Smart Suturing (MISS) in Cardiac Surgery - A Conceptually Closed Loop Approach. In: Doessel, O.; Schlegel; W. C.  (Eds): Proc´s World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering 2009, Vol. 25/IV of IFMBE Proc's, pp. 445-448. Springer, Heidelberg, 2009.
  • Friedl, S.; Wittenberg, T.; Kondruweit, M.: Interactive Registration and Visualization of Cardiac Video and An-giography. In: Doessel, O; Schlegel, W. C. (Eds): Proc´s World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering 2009, Vol. 25/IV of IFMBE Proc´s, pp. 468-471. Springer, Heidelberg, 2009.

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