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Fig. 6.10
Surgery [
17
]
6.6.2
Virtual Surgery
Augmented Reality has been used in medical fields for (a) virtual face surgery,
(b) location of tumours, (c) treatment planning and (d) anatomical structure study.
For example, as shown in Fig.
6.10
, the technique helps surgeons with a view in
transparency of their patient and by tracking surgical tools in real time [
17
].
6.7
Conclusions and Future Work
In this chapter, we briefly discussed segmentation applications. There is a paradigm
shift from traditional segmentation to using depth, attention and prior model infor-
mation in addition to color and motion-based approaches. The expected segmen-
tation quality for a given application depends on the level of granularity and the
requirement that is related to shape precision and temporal coherence of the objects.
Although, there exists still significant challenge to perform robust and fully auto-
mated segmentation that fits generic tasks, a reliable solution can be achieved using
suitable attention and model-based information.
Acknowledgements
Our thanks to colleagues in MMV lab for their suggestions.
