— In this paper, a novel mechanism of remote actuation was proposed and its mechanical problems were discussed. This mechanism consists of leverage and parallelogram mechanism an...
Most real world objects consist of non-uniform materials; as a result, during deformation the bending and shearing are distributed non-uniformly and depend on the local stiffness ...
Force information from needle insertions was measured and modeled for use in robot-assisted percutaneous therapies. Data was collected on bovine livers using the Johns Hopkins Uni...
We present an interactive technique for the registration of captured images of elastic and rigid body parts in which the user is given flexible control over material specific de...
This paper describes a new region-growing method for segmenting medical images. The method uses a closed snake driven by a pressure force that is a function of the statistical cha...