Review on the Application of Hyperspectral Imaging Technology of the Exposed Cortex in Cerebral Surgery

The study of brain science is vital to human health. The application of hyperspectral imaging in biomedical fields has grown dramatically in recent years due to their unique optical imaging method and multidimensional information acquisition. Hyperspectral imaging technology can acquire two-dimensional spatial information and one-dimensional spectral information of biological samples simultaneously, covering the ultraviolet, visible and infrared spectral ranges with high spectral resolution, which can provide diagnostic information about the physiological, morphological and biochemical components of tissues and organs. This technology also presents finer spectral features for brain imaging studies, and further provides more auxiliary information for cerebral disease research. This paper reviews the recent advance of hyperspectral imaging in cerebral diagnosis. Firstly, the experimental setup, image acquisition and pre-processing, and analysis methods of hyperspectral technology were introduced. Secondly, the latest research progress and applications of hyperspectral imaging in brain tissue metabolism, hemodynamics, and brain cancer diagnosis in recent years were summarized briefly. Finally, the limitations of the application of hyperspectral imaging in cerebral disease diagnosis field were analyzed, and the future development direction was proposed.