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This study introduces Stretcher, a novel framework enhancing keypoint descriptors for robust surgical tracking and navigation. Stretcher improves accuracy in soft-tissue deformation, crucial for procedures like liver surgery.

Keywords:
Deformation robustnessImage featuresImage registrationKeypoint matchingSurgical tracking

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  • Medical image analysis
  • Computer vision in surgery
  • Surgical navigation systems

Background:

  • Keypoint-based tracking is vital for image-guided surgery.
  • Soft-tissue deformation, common in liver surgery, degrades tracking reliability.
  • Existing keypoint descriptors struggle with large affine and non-rigid transformations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce Stretcher, a framework enhancing deformation robustness of keypoint descriptors.
  • To improve reliability of surgical tracking and navigation systems.
  • To address limitations of current descriptors in handling tissue deformation.

Main Methods:

  • Stretcher learns a neural model to capture the effect of affine deformations on descriptor representations.
  • Keypoint descriptors are adjusted using the learned model, avoiding redundant recomputation.
  • Simulates a grid of affine transformations for efficient descriptor adaptation.

Main Results:

  • Stretcher improves keypoint matching robustness in highly deformed liver surgery images.
  • Maintains state-of-the-art precision across evaluated scenarios.
  • Demonstrates higher matching accuracy than existing methods in severe deformation.

Conclusions:

  • Stretcher enables reliable keypoint matching under complex tissue motion by modeling affine deformations.
  • The framework enhances robustness in challenging surgical scenarios without compromising efficiency.
  • Well-suited for deformation-prone intraoperative tracking and navigation.