Development of a research interface for image guided intervention: initial application to epilepsy neurosurgery

Author

Papademetris, X. ; Vives, K.P. ; DiStasio, M. ; Staib, L.H. ; Neff, M. ; Flossman, S. ; Frielinghaus, N. ; Zaveri, H. ; Novotny, E.J. ; Blumenfeld, H. ; Constable, R.T. ; Hetherington, H.P. ; Duckrow, R.B. ; Spencer, S.S. ; Spencer, D.D. ; Duncan, J.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Diagnostic Radiol., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

fYear

2006

fDate

6-9 April 2006

Firstpage

490

Lastpage

493

Abstract

This paper describes the development and application of methods to integrate research image analysis methods and software with a commercial image guided surgery navigation system (the BrainLAB VectorVision Cranial System.) The integration was achieved using a custom designed client/server architecture termed VectorVision Link (VV Link) which extends functionality from the Visualization Toolkit. VV Link enables bi-directional data transfer such as image data sets, visualizations and tool positions in real time. The system was tested in both laboratory experiments and in real epilepsy neurosurgeries with highly promising results

Keywords

biomedical MRI; brain; client-server systems; diseases; electronic data interchange; medical image processing; neurophysiology; single photon emission computed tomography; surgery; BrainLAB VectorVision Cranial System; VectorVision Link; Visualization Toolkit; bidirectional data transfer; client/server architecture; commercial image guided surgery navigation system; epilepsy neurosurgery; image guided intervention; research image analysis methods; Application software; Computer architecture; Cranial; Data visualization; Epilepsy; Image analysis; Navigation; Neurosurgery; Software tools; Surgery;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Imaging: Nano to Macro, 2006. 3rd IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9576-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISBI.2006.1624960

Filename

1624960