Adrien Bartoli (UCA) and his colleagues have proposed a novel registration of preoperative liver volume to intra-operative laparoscopy image. The application is to achieve augmented reality in laparoscopy for liver surgery. This work will be presented in MICCAI 2017 conference.

Reference: Deformable Registration of a Preoperative 3D Liver Volume to a Laparoscopy Image using Contour and Shading Cues
B. Koo, E. Özgür, B. Le Roy, E. Buc and A. Bartoli. MICCAI – International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, 2017.