Accuracy assessment for the co-registration between optical and VIVE head-mounted display tracking
Published in International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2019
Recommended citation: Groves LA, Carnahan P, Allen DR, Adam R, Peters TM, Chen ECS, (2019). "Accuracy assessment for the co-registration between optical and VIVE head-mounted display tracking"; in International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 14(7), pp. 1207-1215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-019-01992-4
Purpose: We report on the development and accuracy assessment of a hybrid tracking system that integrates optical spatial tracking into a video pass-through head-mounted display.
Methods: The hybrid system uses a dual-tracked co-calibration apparatus to provide a co-registration between the origins of an optical dynamic reference frame and the VIVE Pro controller through a point-based registration. This registration provides the location of optically tracked tools with respect to the VIVE controller’s origin and thus the VIVE’s tracking system.
Results: The positional accuracy was assessed using a CNC machine to collect a grid of points with 25 samples per location. The positional trueness and precision for the hybrid tracking system were 0.48mm and 0.23mm, respectively. The rotational accuracy was assessed through inserting a stylus tracked by all three systems into a hemispherical phantom with cylindrical openings at known angles and collecting 25 samples per cylinder for each system. The rotational trueness and precision for the hybrid tracking system were 0.64∘ and 0.05∘, respectively. The difference in position and rotational trueness between the OTS and the hybrid tracking system was 0.27mm and 0.04∘, respectively.
Conclusions: We developed a hybrid tracking system that allows the pose of optically tracked surgical instruments to be known within a first-person HMD visualization system, achieving submillimeter accuracy. This research validated the positional and rotational accuracy of the hybrid tracking system and subsequently the optical tracking and VIVE tracking systems. This work provides a method to determine the position of an optically tracked surgical tool with a surgically acceptable accuracy within a low-cost commercial-grade video pass-through HMD. The hybrid tracking system provides the foundation for the continued development of virtual reality or augmented virtuality surgical navigation systems for training or practicing surgical techniques.