Can Image Enhancement be Beneficial to Find Smoke Images in Laparoscopic Surgery?

no code implementations • 27 Dec 2018 • Congcong Wang, Vivek Sharma, Yu Fan, Faouzi Alaya Cheikh, Azeddine Beghdadi, Ole Jacob Elle, Rainer Stiefelhagen

For feature extraction, we use statistical features based on bivariate histogram distribution of gradient magnitude~(GM) and Laplacian of Gaussian~(LoG).

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A Smoke Removal Method for Laparoscopic Images

no code implementations • 22 Mar 2018 • Congcong Wang, Faouzi Alaya Cheikh, Mounir Kaaniche, Ole Jacob Elle

In laparoscopic surgery, image quality can be severely degraded by surgical smoke, which not only introduces error for the image processing (used in image guided surgery), but also reduces the visibility of the surgeons.