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Accurate hepatic vessel segmentation and registration using ultrasound (US) can contribute to beneficial navigation during hepatic surgery. However, it is challenging due to noise and speckle in US imaging and liver deformation. Therefore, a workflow is developed using a reduced 3D U-Net for segmentation, followed by non-rigid coherent point drift (CPD) registration. By means of electromagnetically tracked US, 61 3D volumes were acquired during surgery. Dice scores of 0.77, 0.65 and 0.66 were achieved for segmentation of all vasculature, hepatic vein and portal vein respectively. This compares to inter-observer variabilities of 0.85, 0.88 and 0.74 respectively. Target registration error at a tumor lesion of interest was lower (7.1 mm) when registration is performed either on the hepatic or the portal vein, compared to using all vasculature (8.9 mm). Using clinical data, we developed a workflow consisting …