Utilizing Segmented MRI Data in Image-Guided Surgery

While the role and utility of Magnetic Resonance Images as a diagnostic tool are well established in current clinical practice, there are a number of emerging medical arenas in which MRI can play an equally important role. In this article, we consider the problem of image-guided surgery, and provide an overview of a series of techniques that we have recently developed in order to automatically utilize MRI-based anatomical reconstructions for surgical guidance and navigation.

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