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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 3.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg. 2015 Jun 20;10(12):1985–1996. doi: 10.1007/s11548-015-1235-9

Algorithm 1.

Algorithm for finding gravity-induced deformations using ICP registration

1. Initialize by transforming preoperative chest wall contours to intraoperative space using transformation from “Rigid alignment”
2. Perform an ICP registration between MR chest wall surface and iUS chest wall contours
3. Extract the rotation matrix from the final transformation and apply to the gravity vector in intraoperative space
Δg=Rgintraop(2)
where gintraop is a 3 × 1 vector containing the unit direction normal to the patient bed in intraoperative space