Tumor size measurement and feature point extraction using an endoscope

Recently, a development of the medical instrument using the vision information is brisk. Especially, extracting the 3-dimension information from 2-dimension image is the one of the major research topics. This paper proposes the method to measure tumor size by the 3-dimension information extraction, the triangulation using the extracted 3-dimension information and the camera geometry. To extract the 3-dimension information, the Hough circle transform and triangulation are used. The Hough circle transform is used to extract a feature point from tumor models for the 3-dimension information recovery. An extracted feature point is used for recovering the depth information from the 2-dimension tumor stereo images. A tumor size measurement is done by triangulation using the depth information and camera internal parameters. Matlab and Visual C++ are used for simulation.