Endoscopic surgery, while offering considerable gains for the patient, has created new difficulties for the surgeon. One problem is the fulcrum effect, which causes the movement o...
Abstract— In robot-assisted interventions, providing a surgeon with haptic information regarding contacts made between surgical instruments and tissue can improve task performanc...
Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajnikant V. Patel, Mehrdad Moalle...
The main goal of virtual reality based surgery simulators with haptic feedback is to provide an alternative to traditional training methods on animals, cadavers or real patients. ...
Three-dimensional ultrasound (3D US) is a novel imaging modality that allows real time visualization of internal body structures such as the heart, even through visually opaque bl...
Christopher R. Wagner, Douglas P. Perrin, Robert D...
: This paper describes a method aiming to support the design of interactive-safety critical systems. The method proposes an original integration of approaches usually considered se...