Planning of hepatectomy for tumor resection: Resection surface construction and optimization

Wenyu Chen, Jiayin Zhou, Wei Xiong, Weimin Huang, Thiha Oo, Sudhakar Kundapur Venkatesh

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Abstract

An interactive liver surgery planning system has been developed to construct and optimize the resection plan. With this system, the segmentation results of the liver and its components (such as tumors and vessels) are comprehensively visualized for surgeons to have an intuitive understanding of the internal anatomical structure of the liver. This system will also allow surgeons to interactively create and modify a resection plan on the virtual liver model. The resection surface, whose boundary is a closed curve, will be automatically constructed with the safe resection margins of tumors. Different from other systems, our developed system is able to generate the safety margins to all tumors. During surgery, a larger resection surface may cause potentially more bleeding and other complications. Therefore, area minimization is applied during the resection surface construction by adopting the minimal area mesh, which is a smooth surface with minimal area. After these virtual modifications, the resultant resection surface indicates the route to cut the liver for tumor removal. The volumes for both resected liver and residual liver are calculated for clinical decision making.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2013
Pages1286-1289
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2013 - Osaka, Japan
Duration: Jul 3 2013Jul 7 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
ISSN (Print)1557-170X

Other

Other2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2013
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityOsaka
Period7/3/137/7/13

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Health Informatics

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