In his master thesis,
Sven Painer develops, implements, and evaluates a method to reconstruct the
liver surface from monocular mini-laparoscopic sequences. The principal focus of
his research is to create a basis for helping clinicians to write reports with
quantitative descriptions of the liver surface. A Structure from Motion approach
is performed to do a sparse reconstruction of the liver surface and subsequently
this information is used in a variation based dense 3D reconstruction. The
algorithms are formulated in a causal way, enabling the implementation to be run
in real-time on an adequate hardware platform. The results show a significant
performance increase and pave the way to give clinicians a feedback during
video capturing to improve the quality of the reconstruction in the near
future.