@inproceedings{31de2215e2ec4a9fbb8509a1f78569fd,
title = "Bronchoscopy guidance system based on bronchoscope-motion measurements",
abstract = "Bronchoscopy-guidance systems assist physicians during bronchoscope navigation. However, these systems require an attending technician and fail to continuously track the bronchoscope. We propose a real-time technicianfree bronchoscopy-guidance system that employs continuous tracking. For guidance, our system presents directions on virtual views that are generated from the bronchoscope's tracked location. The system achieves bronchoscope tracking using a strategy that is based on a recently proposed method for sensor-based bronchoscope-motion tracking.1 Furthermore, a graphical indicator notifies the physician when he/she has maneuvered the bronchoscope to an incorrect branch. Our proposed system uses the sensor data to generate virtual views through multiple candidate routes and employs image matching in a Bayesian framework to determine the most probable bronchoscope pose. Tests based on laboratory phantoms validate the potential of the system.",
author = "Cornish, \{Duane C.\} and Higgins, \{William Evan\}",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1117/12.910914",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780819489654",
series = "Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE",
booktitle = "Medical Imaging 2012",
note = "Medical Imaging 2012: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling ; Conference date: 05-02-2012 Through 07-02-2012",
}