Towards image guided laparoscopic liver surgery, defining the system requirement
Stephen Thompson, M Hu, Stian Johnsen, Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy, BR Davidson, David J. Hawkes · UCL Discovery (University College London) · 2011
The first stage in the development of a surgical image guid- ance system should be the identification of the desired clinical outcomes. This paper identifies a set of desired clinical outcomes for a laparoscopic image guided liver surgery system. Working backwards from these a set of design goals and system parameters are identified. Knowledge of the important system parameters will allow system development to proceed in a controlled manner towards a system with maximal clinical benefit. After setting the system design goals and system parameters an image guidance system is proposed and details of development progress to date are given.