2011 Summer Project Week Needle Detection to Control Scanner for Prostate Biopsy

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  Projects List

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  Base module for detecting and tracking a tip of a needle

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  Tracking test by using a experimental images of a needle

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  Image processing test tool (Low pass and High pass filter test) for tracking a needle in prostate biopsy

Needle Detection to Control Scanner for Prostate Biopsy

Key Investigators

• Brigham and Women's Hospital: Atsushi Yamada, Loïc Cadour, Junichi Tokuda and Nobuhiko Hata

Objective

1. For showing MRI which will be taken in realtime at a tip of the needle to a surgeon in prostate biopsy, we will track the tip of the needle and control the scanner by using the tracked position data automatically.

Approach, Plan

1. Tracking: Develop a tracking program by using OpenCV
2. Control: Develop a server to send the tracked position data to 3D Slicer
3. Receiver: Develop a receiver to obtain MRI from a scanner

Progress

1. I received raw images from a scanner simulator and showed the received image on the 3D view of Slicer by using OpenCV.
2. For sending the tracked position of the tip of a needle of a prostate biopsy, I modified transform matrix in using process timer event.
3. For an experimental movie, a test for tracking the tip of the needle was executed.
4. For a clinical case movie, I made an image processing test tool by using OpenCV to detect the tip of the needle (a low pass and high pass filter).