arXiv:2607. 17810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate 3D--2D liver registration, which aligns preoperative 3D models to partial, view-dependent intraoperative surface observations, is critical for AR-guided laparoscopic surgery but remains challenging due to severe occlusion, limited visibility, and the lack of 3D ground-truth supervision.
By Jiaming Feng, Xukun Zhang, Shahid Farid, Sharib Ali
arXiv:2608. 07564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In digital dentistry and oral surgery, the registration of jawbone CT and intraoral scanner (IOS) data is essential for integrating internal bone structure with high-resolution dental surface geometry.
By Sho Mitarai, Hikaru Kayo, Hisashi Ozaki, Yuichiro Imai, Megumi Nakao
arXiv:2609.24560v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (CLE) provides real-time, cellular-resolution optical biopsy but has a narrow field of view, which image mosaicing can ex...
By Ahmed Aboelela, Johannes Barcsay, Jana Friedhof, Miguel Gon\c{c}alves, Alexander Hann, Katharina Breininger
LapaTrack-3D is a real‑time 6 DoF tracking algorithm designed for monocular laparoscopic surgery, aligning intra‑operative video with pre‑operative CT data. It modifies the ORB‑SLAM2 framework with four key changes: fast initialization using a primitive 3D shape, a pseudo‑segmentation strategy to isolate the target organ, incorporation of the 3D shape as a geometric prior in pose graph optimization, and enhanced imaging via a modified Multi‑Scale Retinex with Chromaticity Preservation algorithm. Experiments on in‑vivo and ex‑vivo data show robust tracking under challenging conditions such as poor illumination, fast motion, and partial visibility, achieving 13 Hz on 1280×720 video.
By Jingwei Song, Javid Hussain Jakir, Ray Zhang, Wenwei Zhang, Hao Zhou, Xiaomeng Xian, Maani Ghaffari
arXiv:2606. 07658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Maximal safe resection is the primary objective in glioma surgery.
By Santiago Cepeda, Olga Esteban-Sinovas, Ignacio Arrese, Rosario Sarabia
The paper presents a camera‑pose‑free stereo endoscopic method for recovering tissue deformation by modeling geometry as a 3D point‑derivative map and deformation as a 3D displacement‑local deformation map. It optimizes inter‑frame deformation in a camera‑centric setting, eliminating the need for camera pose estimation, and introduces a canonical map for online geometry and deformation optimization. Experiments on in‑vivo and ex‑vivo laparoscopic data show accurate 3D reconstruction (≈0.37–0.39 mm surface distance) even under occlusion, and the method can estimate surface strain distributions during manipulation.
By Jiahe Chen, Naoki Tomii, Ichiro Sakuma, Etsuko Kobayashi