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Metric Surface Reconstruction of Neurosurgical Scenes from Monocular Operating Microscope Images and Microscope Pose
arXiv:2607.22773v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objective: We evaluated whether metric 3D geometry of neurosurgical operative exposure can be recovered from standard monocular operating-microscope i
arXiv:2607.22773v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objective: We evaluated whether metric 3D geometry of neurosurgical operative exposure can be recovered from standard monocular operating-microscope images combined with microscope pose data. Methods: In a phantom-based laboratory study, two aneurysm training phantoms were imaged with a ZEISS Pentero 800 microscope integrated with Brainlab Cranial Navigation. Microscope images from the standard composite video output were stored with synchronous microscope poses. After intrinsic and extrinsic calibration, depth was estimated with the pretrained Depth Anything 3 model without task-specific fine-tuning. Fused point clouds were converted to meshes using Poisson surface reconstruction. Reconstructions were compared with reference surfaces from structured-light scanning and fine-slice CT. Results: For phantom A, representing a deeper surgical corridor, reconstruction accuracy ranged from 1.95 pm 1.70 mm to 2.33 pm 2.15 mm. For phantom B, representing a directly exposed surface, accuracy ranged from 1.02 pm 0.93 mm to 1.52 pm 1.21 mm. Larger image sets mainly improved completeness, while accuracy remained within a narrower range. Corridor analysis showed preservation of overall geometry with local deviations in incompletely reconstructed regions. Conclusions: Standard monocular microscope images combined with navigation-derived pose data can reconstruct millimeter-range 3D surfaces using a foundation-model-based pipeline. These results show technical feasibility in a controlled phantom setting and support further development toward objective quantification of operative exposure, image fusion, and characterization of working spaces for future surgical instrumentation.
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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-07-28