Advanced imaging and visualization for computer assisted interventions: motivation, state-of-art and future challenges - Ultrasound-guided interventions - MISS 2014 (15)

Prof. Tim Salcudean (University of British Columbia, CA) was one of the speakers of Medical Imaging Summer School (Sicily, July 28-August 1, 2014), here you can find his lecture 2: "Advanced imaging and visualization for computer assisted interventions: motivation, state-of-art and future challenges - Ultrasound-guided interventions".

Abstract. We provide an introduction to image-guided interventions, focusing on ultrasound. Ultrasound imaging enables real-time anatomical modeling that includes organ and vasculature segmentation and tissue elasticity imaging. 

Starting with some clinical examples, we present our work towards the integration of ultrasound as a generic medical robotics tool. This includes the design of new ultrasound imaging systems, their calibration to the medical robot and the camera, and their control from the surgical console. When used with medical robots, such imaging can provide a substitute for haptic feedback during surgery, and may enable accurate registration of intra-operative imaging to pre-operative imaging such as multi-parametric MRI.

We present our experience with the use of intra-operative, registered, operator-controlled ultrasound in radical prostatectomy procedures carried out with the da Vinci robot.

Shooting: Lorenzo Di Silvestro, Mauro Sodano
Editing and post-production: Lorenzo Di Silvestro, Agata Ventura