An interactive interface to pre-operative planning for neurosurgery

• Grant number: 11/02351-0
• Support type: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: May 01, 2011 - July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computing Methodologies and Techniques
• Principal researcher: Wu Shin-Ting
• Grantee: Wu Shin-Ting
• Home Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação (FEEC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Assoc. researchers: Lionis de Souza Watanabe

Abstract

In this project we propose to implement a prototype for an interactive pre-operative neuro-surgical planning on the basis of the curviliner reformatting algorithm we developed. The results have been analyzed in conjunction with the neuro-scientists Prof. Dr. Fernando Cendes andDr. Clarissa Lin Yasuda. Both are members of the thematic project CInAPCE sponsored by FAPESP (Grant Agreement Number 2005/56578-4). Differently from the existing systems for visualizing and manipulating 3D neuroimages, such as 3DSlicer and FreeSurfer, our proposed system allows visual exploration of a cerebral structure by peeling offlayers parallel to the scalp. This innovative approach permits neuro-surgeons to visualize, in a view angle of craniomoty, the lesion size, the spatial relations beteween the healthy and diseased tissues, and to predict the post-operative complications; thus a more accurate assessment of surgery risks is possible. As scientific contributions we expect to achieve satisfactory results in multimodal interactive visualization and the transfer functions that correctly ``segment'' cerebral regions of interest to surgeons. And, as technlogical contrbitution, we intend to make available a prototypt of a pre-operative planner to the neuro-surgeons of our university hospital and analyze with them its effectiveness in aiding surgical procedure. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

WU, SHIN-TING; LOOS, WALLACE SOUZA; DE CASTRO OLIVEIRA, DAYVID LEONARDO; CENDES, FERNANDO; YASUDA, CLARISSA L.; GHIZONI, ENRICO. Interactive patient-customized curvilinear reformatting for improving neurosurgical planning. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOLOGY AND SURGERY, v. 14, n. 5, p. 851-859, MAY 2019. Web of Science Citations: 0.

WU, SHIN-TING; VOLTOLINE, RAPHAEL; LOOS, WALLACE; IVAN RUBIANES SILVA, J. A.; WATANABE, LIONIS; AMORIM, BARBARA; COAN, ANA; CENDES, FERNANDO; YASUDA, CLARISSA L. Toward a Multimodal Diagnostic Exploratory Visualization of Focal Cortical Dysplasia. IEEE COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND APPLICATIONS, v. 38, n. 3, p. 73-89, MAY-JUN 2018. Web of Science Citations: 0.