3D Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality for Image-Guided Surgery

Abstract

Rapid advances in medical imaging, including its growing application in diagnosis, have attracted interest in the integration of research in the life sciences, medicine, chemical & physical sciences, and engineering. The goals of future biomedicine are to developminimally invasive precision diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for human diseases by means of bio-medical imaging, bio-robotic, and precision and control engineering. This chapter introduces a variety of augmented reality techniques thatwere integrated into image-guided diagnostic and therapeutic system, including multi-disciplinary researches of medical imaging and augmented reality for image-guided intervention and medical implementation. 1