This project contributes to the application of computerized stereo vision in the medical domain. A dataset that is representative of medical surgery has been obtained that contains twenty-five left-right stereo image pairs along with dense groundtruth disparity maps. Furthermore, a representative set of four state-of-the-art stereo algorithms are run on the datasets and resulting disparity maps are presented. These results are qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed and performance of each stereo algorithm is compared. Key performance issues for each algorithm and for each scene are pointed out and suggestions for future improvements to the stereo algorithms are made. Finally, suggestions and plans for future work are presented.

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