Application of unscented Kalman filter for robust pose estimation in image-guided surgery

Alberto Vaccarella; Elena De Momi; Marta Valenti; Giancarlo Ferrigno; Andinet Enquobahrie

doi:10.1117/12.912165

17 February 2012 Application of unscented Kalman filter for robust pose estimation in image-guided surgery

Alberto Vaccarella, Elena De Momi, Marta Valenti, Giancarlo Ferrigno, Andinet Enquobahrie

Proceedings Volume 8316, Medical Imaging 2012: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling; 83161K (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912165
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Image-guided surgery (IGS) allows clinicians to view current, intra-operative scenes superimposed on preoperative images (typically MRI or CT scans). IGS systems use localization systems to track and visualize surgical tools overlaid on top of preoperative images of the patient during surgery. The most commonly used localization systems in the Operating Rooms (OR) are optical tracking systems (OTS) due to their ease of use and cost effectiveness. However, OTS' suffer from the major drawback of line-of-sight requirements. State space approaches based on different implementations of the Kalman filter have recently been investigated in order to compensate for short line-of-sight occlusion. However, the proposed parameterizations for the rigid body orientation suffer from singularities at certain values of rotation angles. The purpose of this work is to develop a quaternion-based Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) for robust optical tracking of both position and orientation of surgical tools in order to compensate marker occlusion issues. This paper presents preliminary results towards a Kalman-based Sensor Management Engine (SME). The engine will filter and fuse multimodal tracking streams of data. This work was motivated by our experience working in robot-based applications for keyhole neurosurgery (ROBOCAST project). The algorithm was evaluated using real data from NDI Polaris tracker. The results show that our estimation technique is able to compensate for marker occlusion with a maximum error of 2.5° for orientation and 2.36 mm for position. The proposed approach will be useful in over-crowded state-of-the-art ORs where achieving continuous visibility of all tracked objects will be difficult.

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Alberto Vaccarella, Elena De Momi, Marta Valenti, Giancarlo Ferrigno, and Andinet Enquobahrie "Application of unscented Kalman filter for robust pose estimation in image-guided surgery", Proc. SPIE 8316, Medical Imaging 2012: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 83161K (17 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912165

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