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conference
series LLC Ltd
August 21-22, 2018 Paris, France
International conference on
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & IoT
AI & IoT 2018 | August 21-22, 2018
Advances in Robotics & Automation | ISSN : 2168-9695
Volume 7
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Ali T. Alouani, Adv Robot Autom 2018, Volume:7
DOI: 10.4172/2168-9695-C2-016
Hybrid navigation system for minimally invasive surgery-Phase
I: offline sensors calibration
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inimally invasive surgery (MIS) is not currently widely used by surgeons due to
its cost and complex training requirement of surgeons. As a first step towards
making MIS a more accessible technology to use is to provide the surgeon with quality
images inside the patient as well as the surgical tool location automatically in real time
in a common reference frame. Then provide real time suggestions of how to navigate
inside the human body in order to follow the pre-operation (pre-op) path.The objective
of this paper is to build a platform to accomplish this goal. A set of three heterogeneous
asynchronous sensors is proposed to help the surgeon navigate surgical tools inside the
human body. The proposed system consists of a laser range scanner (LRS) to emulate
the CT/MRI whose image is used to generate the pre-op path by the surgeons, an
electromagnetic tracking system (EMTS) that provides three dimensional position and
orientation of the surgical tool inside the human body, and a small size camera attached
to the EMTS to provide real time images. This set of sensors provides all the necessary
information needed for MIS navigation. The sensors have different data rate, different
reference frames, and independent clocks. A prerequisite for successful navigation is to
represent all the sensors data in a common reference frame. The focus of this paper is
on off line calibration of the three sensors, i.e. before the surgical device is inserted in
the human body. This is a pre-requisite for real time navigation inside the human body.
The proposed off line calibration technique was tested using experimental laboratory
data. The accuracy of the calibration process was promising with an average error of
0.1081 mm and 0.0872 mm along the x and y directions, respectively, in the 2D camera
image.
Biography
Ali T Alouani works as a Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Tennessee
Technological University. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee
Knoxville in the year
1986.Dr. Alouani developed and taught many undergraduate and graduate courses in the
Systems and Signals areas. To date, he has published 120 technical journal and conference papers. He holds 4
patents. He has been active in many areas of Electrical & Computer Engineering. His theoretical research includes
Stochastic Systems, Sensor Data Fusion, Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems, Robust Control, Power
Systems Stability & Control, Independent Component Analysis.
aalouani@tntech.eduAuthor
Ali T Alouani
Professor, Tennessee Technological University, USA
Co-Author
Uddhav Bhattrai