Geometric estimation of intestinal contraction for motion tracking of video capsule endoscope

Liang Mi; Guanqun Bao; Kaveh Pahlavan

doi:10.1117/12.2043963

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12 March 2014 Geometric estimation of intestinal contraction for motion tracking of video capsule endoscope

Liang Mi, Guanqun Bao, Kaveh Pahlavan

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Proceedings Volume 9036, Medical Imaging 2014: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling; 90360B (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043963
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Wireless video capsule endoscope (VCE) provides a noninvasive method to examine the entire gastrointestinal (GI) tract, especially small intestine, where other endoscopic instruments can barely reach. VCE is able to continuously provide clear pictures in short fixed intervals, and as such researchers have attempted to use image processing methods to track the video capsule in order to locate the abnormalities inside the GI tract. To correctly estimate the speed of the motion of the endoscope capsule, the radius of the intestinal track must be known a priori. Physiological factors such as intestinal contraction, however, dynamically change the radius of the small intestine, which could bring large errors in speed estimation. In this paper, we are aiming to estimate the radius of the contracted intestinal track. First a geometric model is presented for estimating the radius of small intestine based on the black hole on endoscopic images. To validate our proposed model, a 3-dimentional virtual testbed that emulates the intestinal contraction is then introduced in details. After measuring the size of the black holes on the test images, we used our model to esimate the radius of the contracted intestinal track. Comparision between analytical results and the emulation model parameters has verified that our proposed method could preciously estimate the radius of the contracted small intestine based on endoscopic images.

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Liang Mi, Guanqun Bao, and Kaveh Pahlavan "Geometric estimation of intestinal contraction for motion tracking of video capsule endoscope", Proc. SPIE 9036, Medical Imaging 2014: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 90360B (12 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043963

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