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Purpose Image Guided Surgery (IGS) navigation systems may acquire the position of an instrument relative to the patient with an infrared light–based stereo tracking camera. The measured instrument position is then transformed from the tracking coordinate system to the coordinate system of the intraoperatively acquired medical images. Method A robust and practical automatic method was developed to...