IBIS: an OR ready open-source platform for image-guided neurosurgery

Simon Drouin, Anna Kochanowska, Marta Kersten-Oertel, Ian J. Gerard, Rina Zelmann, Dante De Nigris, Silvain Bériault, Tal Arbel, Denis Sirhan, Abbas F. Sadikot, Jeffery A. Hall, David S. Sinclair, Kevin Petrecca, Rolando F. DelMaestro, D. Louis Collins

Abstract: Navigation systems commonly used in neurosurgery suffer from two main drawbacks: (1) their accuracy degrades over the course of the operation and (2) they require the surgeon to mentally map images from the monitor to the patient. In this paper, we introduce the Intraoperative Brain Imaging System (IBIS), an open-source image-guided neurosurgery research platform that implements a novel workflow where navigation accuracy is improved using tracked intraoperative ultrasound (iUS) and the visualization of navigation information is facilitated through the use of augmented reality (AR).