Fast Detection and Removal of Glare in Gray Scale Laparoscopic Images

Nefeli Lamprinou, Emmanouil Z. Psarakis

2018

Abstract

Images captured by laparoscopic cameras, often suffer from glare due to specular reflections from surgical tools and some tissue surfaces that can disturb the attention of surgeon. In this paper, inspired by their form, the photometric distortions caused by specular reflections are modeled as the superposition of a smooth and a pulse shaped curve. Based on this model a new fast technique for the detection and removal of glare in gray scale laparoscopic images is proposed. The proposed technique, as well as other state of the art image inpainting algorithms are used in a number of experiments based on artificial and real laparoscopic data, and the proposed algorithm seems to outperform its rivals.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lamprinou N. and Psarakis E. (2018). Fast Detection and Removal of Glare in Gray Scale Laparoscopic Images. In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2018) - Volume 4: VISAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-290-5, SciTePress, pages 206-212. DOI: 10.5220/0006654202060212

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp18,
author={Nefeli Lamprinou and Emmanouil Z. Psarakis},
title={Fast Detection and Removal of Glare in Gray Scale Laparoscopic Images},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2018) - Volume 4: VISAPP},
year={2018},
pages={206-212},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006654202060212},
isbn={978-989-758-290-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2018) - Volume 4: VISAPP
TI - Fast Detection and Removal of Glare in Gray Scale Laparoscopic Images
SN - 978-989-758-290-5
AU - Lamprinou N.
AU - Psarakis E.
PY - 2018
SP - 206
EP - 212
DO - 10.5220/0006654202060212
PB - SciTePress