Combining deep learning with geometric features for image-based localization in the Gastrointestinal tract

2021
Tracking monocular colonoscope in the GastroIntestinal (GI) tract is challenging as the obtained images suffer from deformation, blurred textures, and significant changes in appearance. These drawbacks greatly restrict the tracking ability of conventional geometry-based methods, which are heavily dependent on the performance of corner points extraction from the image. Even though end-to-end Deep Learning (DL) can overcome these issues, limited labeling data is a roadblock to the state-of-the-art DL-based method. To handle these drawbacks, we propose a novel approach to combine the DL-based method with the traditional geometry-based approach to achieve better localization with small training data. In this work, a DL network is trained with the images of the pre-operative endoscopy/colonoscopy. Siamese architecture is introduced to perform the zone labeling of the image based on the anatomical segmentation with expert knowledge. Then, using the image in the therapeutic intervention, our method predicts the 6 degrees of freedom scope pose and recover geometric reference to the images from the pre-operative endoscopy/colonoscopy. The DL network predicts the zone of the testing image, and the pre-generated triangulated map points within the zone in the training set are registered with the bundle adjustment algorithm. The proposed hybrid method is tested on the synthetic data sets and the real-world in-vivo data sets. Further, the results achieved through various experiments validate that the proposed method outperforms traditional geometry-based only or DL-based only localization techniques.
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卷号:185
ISSN:0957-4174
收录类型
SSCI
发表日期
2021
学科领域
循证管理学
国家
美国
语种
英语
DOI
10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115631
EISSN
1873-6793
资助机构
FX Palo Alto Laboratory Inc, USA
资助信息
This work was carried out at FX Palo Alto Laboratory Inc. It is supported by FX Palo Alto Laboratory Inc, USA. The authors would like to thank the editor and the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions in improving the quality of the paper. We also thank Mr. Tony Dunnigan for his work editing the video.
被引频次(WOS)
0
被引更新日期
2022-01
来源机构
University of Michigan System University of Michigan
关键词
Gastrointestinal tract Siamese network Image based localization Deep learning