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Here's a challenge question to folks reading this and learned with the tools of the trade (my apologies in advance for somewhat hijacking the thread): consider this video of an endoscopy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUVDKoKSEkU -- say, from 3:00 to 5:00. And I have a bunch of movies (i.e., a series of images!) and I want to do a 3d reconstruction of this.

It seems super, super difficult... there are free-flowing liquids, and since this is an esophagus/upper lining of the stomach which is changing in form quite drastically so often. How would you guys approach this problem?



Even more hijacking, I remember thinking medical applications were going to be the killer apps for VR. I was blown away by these demos almost half a decade ago https://youtu.be/MWGBRsV9omw?t=251

Did they ever make it into real life practice?


Thanks for linking to Doc Ok's youtube channel!

https://www.youtube.com/c/okreylos/videos

5 years ago he was active in the Vive VR world

http://doc-ok.org/


You're not the first to come up with that challenge ;) https://endovis.grand-challenge.org/




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