This study presents a haptic simulator for learning palpation of aorta in cardiovascular surgery and performs quantitative evaluation in educational use through some user study. T...
In this paper we describe the development of an interactive virtual reality (VR) system that aims to realistically simulate specific paracentesis clinical procedures (particularly ...
Costas S. Tzafestas, Yiannis Koumpouros, Kostas Bi...
In this paper, we propose a novel predictive model for
object boundary, which can integrate information from any
sources. The model is a dynamic “object” model whose
manifes...
Tian Shen (Lehigh University), Hongsheng Li (Lehig...
This paper presents a voxel-based animation technique which employs either a massspring modelor a niteelementmodel. The voxel-basedmeshis generated in a pre-processing step. Two v...
Yan Chen, Qing-hong Zhu, Arie E. Kaufman, Shigeru ...
Surgical simulators present a safe and potentially effective method for surgical training, and can also be used in robot-assisted surgery for pre- and intra-operative planning. Ac...