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MICCAI
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
On the Feasibility of a Moving Support for Surgery on the Beating Heart
Abstract. In this paper the use of a heart-tracking hand support is proposed to allow coronary artery bypass grafting surgery to take place on the beating heart. This method elimin...
Ana Luisa Trejos, S. E. Salcudean, F. Sassani, Sam...
MICCAI
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Optimization Approaches for Soft-Tissue Prediction in Craniofacial Surgery Simulation
Abstract. A system for interactive, 3–D, craniofacial surgery simulation is presented. It is used for the 3–D simulation of osteotomies of the facial and skull bones and for th...
Matthias Teschner, Sabine Girod, Bernd Girod
MICCAI
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Steady-Hand Robotic System for Microsurgical Augmentation
This paper reports the development of a robotic system designed to extend a human’s ability to perform small-scale (sub-millimeter) manipulation tasks requiring human judgement, ...
Russell H. Taylor, Patrick S. Jensen, Louis L. Whi...
MICCAI
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Single Image Registration Method for CT Guided Interventions
Minimally invasive image guided interventions are an attractive option for localized therapy delivery and diagnostic biopsy. We have developed a method for CT guided needle placeme...
Robert C. Susil, James H. Anderson, Russell H. Tay...
MICCAI
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Statistical Segmentation of fMRI Activations Using Contextual Clustering
Abstract. A central problem in the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is the reliable detection and segmentation of activated areas. Often this goal is a...
Eero Salli, Ari Visa, Hannu J. Aronen, Antti Korve...
MICCAI
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Towards a Better Comprehension of Similarity Measures Used in Medical Image Registration
While intensity-based similarity measures are increasingly used for medical image registration, they often rely on implicit assumptions regarding the physics of imaging. The motiva...
Alexis Roche, Grégoire Malandain, Nicholas ...
MICCAI
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A 3d Puzzle for Learning Anatomy
We present a new metaphor for learning anatomy - the 3d puzzle. With this metaphor students learn anatomic relations by assembling a geometric model themselves. For this purpose, a...
Bernhard Preim, Felix Ritter, Oliver Deussen
MICCAI
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Understanding the "Demon's Algorithm": 3D Non-rigid Registration by Gradient Descent
The “Demons Algorithm” in increasingly used for non-rigid registration of 3D medical images. However, if it is fast and usually accurate, the algorithm is based on intuitive id...
Xavier Pennec, Pascal Cachier, Nicholas Ayache
MICCAI
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
3D Cardiac Deformation from Ultrasound Images
The quantitative estimation of regional cardiac deformation from 3D image sequences has important clinical implications for the assessment of viability in the heart wall. Such esti...
Xenophon Papademetris, Albert J. Sinusas, Donald P...