Kidney and Liver
Minimally Invasive Kidney and Liver Surgery
Current Graduate Students: Uditha Jayarathne
Laparoscopic surgery is a form of minimally invasive image-guided surgery. This technique is becoming
This increasing acceptance of minimally invasive kidney (renal) and liver (hepatic) surgery has demanded our engineering efforts to focus on improving these current image-guided procedures.
Some of the current system limitations are that:
video is not stereoscopicLaparoscopic - Preoperative images (taken from CT and MR) are not effectively integrated into the visualization
Our Contribution
The proposed direction of our laboratory is to integrate stereoscopic video with laparoscopic ultrasound to provide better visualization and improved depth perception. We hope to apply this system to kidney tumor resection.
Key Questions
- How can we integrate mono- and stereoscopic
laproscopy with interoperative ultrasound? - Can vision-based tracking decrease the expense of
laproscopic procedures without sacrificing accuracy or speed?