Rupture Detection During Needle Insertion Using Complex OCT Data and CNNs.

Journal: IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Soft tissue deformation and ruptures complicate needle placement. However, ruptures at tissue interfaces also contain information which helps physicians to navigate through different layers. This navigation task can be challenging, whenever ultrasound (US) image guidance is hard to align and externally sensed forces are superimposed by friction.

Authors

  • Sarah Latus
  • Johanna Sprenger
  • Maximilian Neidhardt
  • Julia Schadler
  • Alexandra Ron
  • Antonia Fitzek
  • Matthias Schlüter
    Hamburg University of Technology, Schwarzenbergstraße 95 21073, Hamburg.
  • Philipp Breitfeld
  • Axel Heinemann
  • Klaus Puschel
  • Alexander Schlaefer
    Institute of Medical Technology, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany. schlaefer@tuhh.de.