Registration
Published in Mixed and Augmented Reality in Medicine (Book), 2018
Recommended citation: Maier-Hein L, Speidel S, Stenau E, Chen ECS, Ma B, (2018). "Registration"; in T.M. Peters, C.A. Linte, Z. Yaniv, & J. Williams (Eds.) Mixed and Augmented Reality in Medicine, 1st ed. Chap. 3, pp. 29–46. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315157702
In computer-assisted surgery, the term “registration” typically refers to aligning preoperative patient-specific models with intraoperatively acquired data. It can be used to augment the surgeon’s view by visualizing the structures below the tissue surface. This chapter provides a short overview of the principles behind intraoperative registration, reviews the related literature on error estimation, and presents representative registration methods developed in the context of minimally-invasive surgery (MIS).