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ICRA
2002
IEEE
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15 years 8 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
15 years 8 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
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BMVC
2001
15 years 6 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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15 years 2 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...
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ICANN
2009
Springer
15 years 1 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,...