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IPMI
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Automatic Prediction of Myocardial Contractility Improvement in Stress MRI Using Shape Morphometrics with Independent Component
Abstract. An important assessment in patients with ischemic heart disease is whether myocardial contractility may improve after treatment. The prediction of myocardial contractilit...
Avan Suinesiaputra, Alejandro F. Frangi, Hildo J. ...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Flexible Needle Steering and Optimal Trajectory Planning for Percutaneous Therapies
Flexible needle insertion into viscoelastic tissue is modeled in this paper with a linear beam supported by virtual springs. Using this simplified model, the forward and inverse ki...
Daniel Glozman, Moshe Shoham
ICAT
2003
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Evaluation and User Study of Haptic Simulator for Learning Palpation in Cardiovascular Surgery
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...
Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda, Masaru Komori, Hiro...
CORR
2008
Springer
72views Education» more  CORR 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Design Optimization for an Electro-Thermally Actuated Polymeric Microgripper
Thermal micro-actuators are a promising solution to the need for large-displacement, gentle handling force, low-power MEMS actuators. Potential applications of these devices are mi...
R. Voicu, R. Muller, L. Eftime
TROB
2010
120views more  TROB 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Design and Control of Concentric-Tube Robots
—A novel approach toward construction of robots is based on a concentric combination of precurved elastic tubes. By rotation and extension of the tubes with respect to each other...
Pierre E. Dupont, Jesse Lock, Brandon Itkowitz, Ev...