Unscented Kalman filter based sensor fusion for robust optical and electromagnetic tracking in surgical navigation

A Vaccarella, E De Momi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computer-aided surgery systems provide visual guidance to surgeons by showing the real-
time pose of surgical instruments overlaid on preoperative medical images of the patient …

Hip joint centre position estimation using a dual unscented Kalman filter for computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery

E Beretta, E De Momi, V Camomilla… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
In computer-assisted knee surgery, the accuracy of the localization of the femur centre of
rotation relative to the hip-bone (hip joint centre) is affected by the unavoidable and …

Quaternion based unscented Kalman filter for robust motion tracking in neurosurgery

N Enayati - 2012 - politesi.polimi.it
This dissertation presents a fusion algorithm designed for robust estimation of the pose of a
freely moving target in neurosurgery. The filter used for the fusion processes data from an …

Implementation and verification of a flexible optical tracker

MJ Semple - 2015 - open.library.ubc.ca
Despite being demonstrably better than conventional surgical techniques with regards to
implant alignment and outlier reduction, computer navigation systems have not faced …

Multimodal sensors management in Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery

A Vaccarella - 2013 - politesi.polimi.it
Surgical interventions are among the most challenging activities performed by humans. To
facilitate such a complex task, research efforts in biomedical engineering led to the …