Dr Peter Mountney
|
I am now working at Siemens Corporate Research as a research scientist in Dorin Comaniciu's group.
At Imperial I worked as a research associate in the Visual Information Processing group headed by Professor Guang-Zhong Yang at Imperial College London . I was based in the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery and collaborate with the Department of Computing and St Mary's Hospital. I was involved with the following projects: PASSPORT | RTISIS | SCATh | iSNAKE . Email: peter.mountney05 "at" imperial.ac.uk |
 |
|
ResearchMy principal areas of research are computer vision and robotics with the application to Minimally Invasive (keyhole) Surgery (MIS) and robotic assisted surgery. My current research is specifically focused on Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) and tracking natural features in images.In SLAM the position of a camera is estimated while simultaneously building a map of the surrounding environment. It is closely related to Structure From Motion and has applications in autonomous robotics, wearable computing, gaming devices, augmented reality, registration and many others. My research is focused on SLAM inside the human body. This presents a number of research challenges including the theoretical treatment of tissue deformation. |
|
NewsA list of my publications with citations on Google Scholar link.April 2011. The VIP Laparoscopic/Endoscopic data is currently offline whilst issues are resolved with the hosting. It will be up and running soon. AR Times. March 2011. AR Times picked up on a video demonstration Mirna Lerotic (inverse realision visualisation) and my work (tissue tracking). MICCAI 2011 Tutorial. March 2011. We will be giving a tutorial at this years MICCAI titled "3D Surface reconstruction in laparoscopic surgery". More details to follow. VIP Laparoscopic/Endoscopic dataset. Feb 2011. Two new cardiac phantom data-sets added with ground truth from dynamic CT. CARS. Feb 2011: We've had two co-authored papers accepted to CARS (Computer Aided Radiology and Surgery) which use SLAM. One paper titled "Horizon Stabilized – Dynamic View Expansion for Robotic Assisted Surgery (HS-DVE)" which redintroduces missing visual cues to aid the surgeon in navigation. The other is titled "Enhanced Visualisation for Minimally Invasive Surgery" and uses texture synthesis, inpainting and texture mesh paramaterisation methods to improve visualisation of the surgical scene. The Annals of Surgery. Dec 2010: The co-authored paper "Orientation strategies in Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery" has been accepted to the Annals of Surgery. This journal has an Impact Factor of 7.9. The work investigates the effect of disorientation in NOTES and strategies for dealing with it. Vimeo. You can find some of my videos on Vimeo now. Dataset website now online. The website has 10 endoscopic / laparoscopic datasets including, ex vivo, in vivo, Laparoscopic, Endoscopic, Monocular, Stereo, NOTES, Cardiac, Abdominal, Liver. We provide intrinsic and extrinsic calibration data for the cameras. The idea behind this website is to make medical datasets avaliable to the vision community so researchers don't need to establish relationships with hospitals, collect data, gain patient consent etc.. More datasets will be added including validataion data. Signal Processing Magazine review/turorial article . The July 2010 issue of SPM has our review/tutorial article on using endoscopic/laparoscoic image for 3D reconstruction, tissue tracking, structure from motion, SLAM etc. MICCAI 2010. My paper on Motion Compensated SLAM has been accepted to MICCAI 2010. The paper formulates the SLAM problem to work in a totally non static environment where tissue motion is caused by respiration. Video. Youtube. I've made many of the videos of my work avaliable on youtube. |
CollaborationsI have collaborated with the a number of people including: Lord Darzi | Andrew Davision | Dan Elson | Danail Stoyanov |