Amber L. Simpson and Burton Ma and Elvis C. S. Chen and Randy E. Ellis and A. James Stewart.
Using Registration Uncertainty Visualization in a User Study of a Simple Surgical Task.
In Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. (MICCAI 2006), vol. 4191, pp. 397--404, 2006.

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Abstract:

We present a novel method to visualize registration uncertainty and a simple study to motivate the use of uncertainty visualization in computer-assisted surgery. Our visualization method resulted in a statistically significant reduction in the number of attempts required to localize a target, and a statistically significant reduction in the number of targets that our subjects failed to localize. Most notably, our work addresses the existence of uncertainty in guidance and offers a first step towards helping surgeons make informed decisions in the presence of imperfect data.

Bibtex:

@InProceedings{  simpson:2006:URUV,
  author = 	 {Amber L. Simpson and Burton Ma and Elvis C. S. Chen
                  and Randy E. Ellis and A. James Stewart},
  title = 	 {Using Registration Uncertainty Visualization in a
                  User Study of a Simple Surgical Task},
  booktitle =    {Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted
                  Intervention. (MICCAI 2006)},
  pages = 	 {397--404},
  year = 	 {2006},
  volume = 	 {4191},
  series = 	 {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
}

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