Determining Epicardial Surface Motion Using Elastic Registration: Towards Virtual Reality Guidance of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Interventions

Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is performed on the beating heart, through inter-costal ports. The two major limitations of these procedures are: selecting port locations for optimal target coverage (based on chest x-rays and angiograms), and navigating surgical tools through a dynamic and confined environment using a 2D endoscope. To supplement the current surgery planning and guidance strategies, we continue developing VCSP – a virtual …