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ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Tactile Tracking of Arteries in Robotic Surgery
Locating arteries hidden beneath superficial tissue can be a difficult task in minimally invasive surgery. This paper reports the development of a system that finds the paths of a...
Ryan A. Beasley, Robert D. Howe
CVRMED
1997
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Geometric constraint analysis and synthesis: methods for improving shape-based registration accuracy
Shape-based registration is a process for estimating the transformation between two shape representations of an object. It is used in many image-guided surgical systems to establis...
David A. Simon, Takeo Kanade
BMVC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Combining 3D Deformable Models and Level Set Methods for the Segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
In this paper we present a system that combines the benefits of 3D deformable models and level set methods for medical volume segmentation. Our 3D deformable model is a very comp...
Derek R. Magee, Andrew J. Bulpitt, Elizabeth Berry
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 7 months ago
Guidance of a steerable cannula robot in soft tissue using preoperative imaging and conoscopic surface contour sensing
— Intraoperative surface contour sensing can enable the registration of high-resolution three-dimensional preoperative images for precise guidance of surgical robots. This is par...
Rav A. Lathrop, D. Caleb Rucker, Robert J. Webster...
ICANN
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Mental Tasks Classification for a Noninvasive BCI Application
Mapping brain activity patterns in external actions has been studied in recent decades and is the base of a brain-computer interface. This type of interface is extremely useful for...
Alexandre Ormiga G. Barbosa, David Ronald A. Diaz,...