Part V

Treatment Planning, Guidance and Training

Part V “Treatment planning, guidance and training” covers surgical planning, intraoperative support and surgical training. In Chapter 17, we discuss general requirements and solution strategies for computer-assisted surgery.

Chapter 18 is dedicated to intraoperative visualization, image-guided surgery, and augmented reality in surgery. Here we will discuss how medical image data is integrated with an intervention itself. We discuss advanced techniques combining pre- and intraoperative imaging data similar to a car navigation system. The constraints of intraoperative use, interaction techniques appropriate in these settings and limitations with respect to setup times and accuracy will be carefully ...

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