Summary of Seamless Augmented Reality Integration in Arthroscopy: a Pipeline For Articular Reconstruction and Guidance, by Hongchao Shu et al.
Seamless Augmented Reality Integration in Arthroscopy: A Pipeline for Articular Reconstruction and Guidance
by Hongchao Shu, Mingxu Liu, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Suxi Gu, Ping-Cheng Ku, Jonathan Knopf, Russell Taylor, Mathias Unberath
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel pipeline is proposed to enhance intraoperative awareness during arthroscopic surgeries by fusing simultaneous localization and mapping, depth estimation, and 3D Gaussian splatting techniques to reconstruct intra-articular structures from monocular arthroscope video. This approach achieves dense 3D reconstruction and competitive rendering fidelity with explicit 3D representation in approximately 7 minutes on average. The method is evaluated on four phantom datasets, achieving a reconstruction error of RMSE = 2.21mm, PSNR = 32.86, and SSIM = 0.89 on average. Furthermore, the pipeline enables Augmented Reality (AR) reconstruction and guidance directly from monocular arthroscopy without additional data or hardware, holding potential for enhancing surgical precision. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Arthroscope technology helps doctors diagnose and treat joint problems by looking inside joints through a tiny camera. However, this process is limited because the camera has a narrow view and can’t show depth well. Researchers have developed a new way to make arthroscopy better by combining computer vision techniques to reconstruct 3D images from video taken during the procedure. This method allows doctors to see more detail and get more precise information about the joint, which could improve their ability to fix problems. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Depth estimation » Precision
