Intraoperative tissue deformation, known as brain shift, decreases the benefit of using
preoperative images to guide neurosurgery. Non-rigid registration of preoperative magnetic …

Simple Summary Neuronavigation and microscope-based augmented reality are widely
used in neurosurgery to support intraoperative orientation, preserve neurological function …

Brain shift is an important obstacle to the application of image guidance during
neurosurgical interventions. There has been a growing interest in intra-operative imaging to …

An approach to medical image registration using Fuzzy c-Means (FCM) clustering
segmentation and Speeded-Up Robust Feature (SURF) detector is presented. This …

Intra-operative ultrasound as an imaging based method has been recognized as an effective
solution to compensate non rigid brain shift problem in recent years. Measuring brain shift …

Notwithstanding the widespread use of image guided neurosurgery systems in recent years,
the accuracy of these systems is strongly limited by the intra-operative deformation of the …

Background/Aims: Brain shift during the exposure of cranial lesions may reduce the
accuracy of frameless stereotaxy. We describe a rapid, safe, and effective method to …

Brain shift is an important obstacle to the application of image guidance during
neurosurgical interventions. There has been a growing interest in intra-operative imaging to …

Image registration is effect by finding the best spatial transformation between the reference
image and the floating image in terms of optimizing a similarity metric. Mutual information, as …

Medical images are a powerful tool to help the physicians in diagnosis and planning a
surgery. Ultrasound (US) and Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) are the most used …