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Image-based navigation is widely considered the next frontier of minimally invasive surgery. It is believed that image-based navigation will increase the access to reproducible, safe, and high-precision surgery as it may then be performed…

A fast and accurate algorithm is presented for registering scans from an RGB-D camera on a pan-tilt platform. The pan-tilt RGB-D camera rotates and scans the entire scene in an automated fashion. The proposed algorithm exploits the movement…

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Image-to-point-cloud registration (I2P) is a fundamental task in robotic applications such as manipulation,grasping, and localization. Existing deep learning-based I2P methods seek to align image and point cloud features in a learned…

Cross-modality registration between 2D images from cameras and 3D point clouds from LiDARs is a crucial task in computer vision and robotic. Previous methods estimate 2D-3D correspondences by matching point and pixel patterns learned by…

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Image guidance in minimally invasive interventions is usually provided using live 2D X-ray imaging. To enhance the information available during the intervention, the preoperative volume can be overlaid over the 2D images using 2D/3D image…