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Hepathic Surgery Planification
Purpose and Definitions
The liver is an organ delimited to 8 anatomical segment defined
from portal vein and sus-hepatic vein. They are used as surgical
unit in anatomical hepatic resection. These resections consist
to remove the infected areas of the liver, segment by
segment. In pratice, surgeons use the Couinaud definition which
allows to delimitate segments from landmarks localise on the
portal vein (see the following images).
This work is a part of the European Eureka Project MASTER
intented to create tools for planification and simulation of liver
surgery allowing from conventional 3D CT-Scans the reconstruction of a
numerical model of the liver and its internal structures (its vessels
and its lesions). This model will contain anatomical informations used
by surgeons the preoperative analysis, i.e. the localisation of the 8
anatomical segments, but also the vessels labelling allowing a precise
surgical planification in respect with the anatomical definitions.
