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Image-guided surgery & navigation

Image-guided surgery & navigation

Patient-specific surgical planning and intra-operative guidance, built on 3D Slicer and integrated with hospital navigation systems.

Modern surgery is increasingly guided by patient-specific 3D models derived from pre-operative imaging. Behind every successful navigated procedure is a chain of software: segmentation, registration to the operating table, visualisation in the surgeon’s line of sight, and hand-off to commercial navigation platforms in the operating room.

This theme covers MESH|Lab’s work on planning and intra-operative guidance for procedures where geometry matters — liver resection, stereotactic neurosurgery, vascular interventions — and the integrations with the navigation hardware those operating rooms already use.

What we build

  • 3D Slicer extensions for patient-specific planning workflows, designed by surgeons in the same room as the engineers writing the code.
  • Bridges to commercial navigation systems that turn open-source planning output into intra-operative guidance without re-licensing the whole pipeline.
  • Stereotactic-procedure planners for electrode placement in deep-brain stimulation, in collaboration with European neurosurgical centres.

Why it matters

Surgical-navigation hardware is expensive, regulated, and locked to the vendors who sold it. Open, validated planning software changes the economics: smaller centres get access to procedures previously limited to academic hospitals, and clinical research stops depending on what a vendor’s roadmap permits.

See the Projects page for the current portfolio under this theme.