Towards Patient-Specific Deformable Registration in Laparoscopic Surgery

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Autori principali: Neri, Alberto, Penza, Veronica, Haouchine, Nazim, Mattos, Leonardo S.
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author Neri, Alberto
Penza, Veronica
Haouchine, Nazim
Mattos, Leonardo S.
author_facet Neri, Alberto
Penza, Veronica
Haouchine, Nazim
Mattos, Leonardo S.
contents Unsafe surgical care is a critical health concern, often linked to limitations in surgeon experience, skills, and situational awareness. Integrating patient-specific 3D models into the surgical field can enhance visualization, provide real-time anatomical guidance, and reduce intraoperative complications. However, reliably registering these models in general surgery remains challenging due to mismatches between preoperative and intraoperative organ surfaces, such as deformations and noise. To overcome these challenges, we introduce the first patient-specific non-rigid point cloud registration method, which leverages a novel data generation strategy to optimize outcomes for individual patients. Our approach combines a Transformer encoder-decoder architecture with overlap estimation and a dedicated matching module to predict dense correspondences, followed by a physics-based algorithm for registration. Experimental results on both synthetic and real data demonstrate that our patient-specific method significantly outperforms traditional agnostic approaches, achieving 45% Matching Score with 92% Inlier Ratio on synthetic data, highlighting its potential to improve surgical care.
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Neri, Alberto
Penza, Veronica
Haouchine, Nazim
Mattos, Leonardo S.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Unsafe surgical care is a critical health concern, often linked to limitations in surgeon experience, skills, and situational awareness. Integrating patient-specific 3D models into the surgical field can enhance visualization, provide real-time anatomical guidance, and reduce intraoperative complications. However, reliably registering these models in general surgery remains challenging due to mismatches between preoperative and intraoperative organ surfaces, such as deformations and noise. To overcome these challenges, we introduce the first patient-specific non-rigid point cloud registration method, which leverages a novel data generation strategy to optimize outcomes for individual patients. Our approach combines a Transformer encoder-decoder architecture with overlap estimation and a dedicated matching module to predict dense correspondences, followed by a physics-based algorithm for registration. Experimental results on both synthetic and real data demonstrate that our patient-specific method significantly outperforms traditional agnostic approaches, achieving 45% Matching Score with 92% Inlier Ratio on synthetic data, highlighting its potential to improve surgical care.
title Towards Patient-Specific Deformable Registration in Laparoscopic Surgery
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13186