Retrieval and registration of long-range overlapping frames for scalable mosaicking of in vivo fetoscopy.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The standard clinical treatment of Twin-to-Twin transfusion syndrome consists in the photo-coagulation of undesired anastomoses located on the placenta which are responsible to a blood transfer between the two twins. While being the standard of care procedure, fetoscopy suffers from a limited field-of-view of the placenta resulting in missed anastomoses. To facilitate the task of the clinician, building a global map of the placenta providing a larger overview of the vascular network is highly desired.

Methods

To overcome the challenging visual conditions inherent to in vivo sequences (low contrast, obstructions or presence of artifacts, among others), we propose the following contributions: (1) robust pairwise registration is achieved by aligning the orientation of t

SUBMITTER: Peter L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5953985 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature