Manipulating small objects such as needles, screws or plates inside the human body during minimally invasive surgery can be very difficult for less experienced surgeons, due to the...
Abstract. This paper describes the first accomplishment of the Timeof-Flight (ToF) measurement principle via endoscope optics. The applicability of the approach is verified by in-v...
Certain surgical procedures require a high degree of precise manual control within a very restricted area. Retinal surgeries are part of this group of procedures. During vitreoret...
— This paper presents a visual attention mechanism for the acquisition of landmarks in an arbitrary scene. The proposed mechanism consists of two consecutive selection stages. Th...
This paper describes a new method of combining ray casting with segmented tubular objects, such as blood vessels, for purposes of clinically useful display. The method first projec...