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2004
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Abstract. We propose the use of a particle filter as a solution to the rigid shapebased registration problem commonly found in computer-assisted surgery. This approach is especiall...
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MICCAI
2004
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
2004
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Mass-spring systems are of special interest for soft tissue modeling in surgical simulation due to their ease of implementation and real-time behavior. However, the parameter ident...
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MICCAI
2004
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
2004
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Abstract. We propose a new method for removing topological defects in surfaces and volumes segmented from medical images. Unlike current topology correction approaches, we define a...
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MICCAI
2004
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
2004
Springer
Anatomical objects often have complex and varying image appearance at different portions of the boundary; and it is frequently a challenge even to select appropriate scales at whic...
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MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
2003
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A fast exploratory framework for extracting cardiac noise signals contained in rest-case fMRI images is presented. Highly autocorrelated, independent components of the input time ...
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MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
2003
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Abstract. In this note, we present a method for flattening anatomical surfaces such as branched vessels and intestinal tracts in an areapreserving way. This method is based on the ...
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MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
2003
Springer
In this paper we present a method for simulating bleeding in a virtual reality hysteroscopic simulator for surgical training. The simulated bleeding is required to be visually app...
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MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
2003
Springer
Finding point correspondence in anatomical images is a key step in shape analysis and deformable registration. This paper proposes an automatic correspondence detection algorithm u...
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MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
2003
Springer
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is performed on the beating heart, through inter-costal ports. The two major limitations of these procedures are: selecting port locations for op...