Human-computer interaction for image guided surgery systems using physiological signals: Application to deep brain stimulation surgery

Abstract

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical procedure used to treat Parkinson disease, the success of this surgery relies in the correct location of the neurostimulator device. A 3D Brain atlas allows to interactively visualizing the brain structures over a 3D medical image volume giving a view over the real area of surgery where the neurostimulator device has to be allocated. The movement of the 3D image volume is commonly made by a computer mouse or touch screens, which are not the best for a sterile environment as a surgery room and have some limitations as distance and move sensibility of the computer cursor. Hence in this paper we proposed a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to navigate over the 3D brain atlas structure and improve the limitations that the common computer peripherals have. For the development of the HCI was used the bluetooth sensor MYO of ThalamicLabs TM. The HCI developed were tested in the planning of DBS surgery under the NEURONAV software [1] giving a suitable navigation and control over 3D atlas.