Variational based smoke removal in laparoscopic images

Abstract Background In laparoscopic surgery, image quality can be severely degraded by surgical smoke, which not only introduces errors for the image processing algorithms (used in image guided surgery), but also reduces the visibility of the observed organs and tissues. To overcome these drawbacks,...

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Main Authors: Congcong Wang, Faouzi Alaya Cheikh, Mounir Kaaniche, Azeddine Beghdadi, Ole Jacob Elle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:BioMedical Engineering OnLine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12938-018-0590-5