An interactive tool for the segmentation, visualization and navigation of magnetic resonance (MR) images is presented. Previous work has shown the hierarchical self-organizing map...
The market for health care systems supporting physicians and improving their daily routine is steadily growing. The development of these systems requires handling medical knowledg...
Nowadays, several health institutions already use clinical report systems. However the majority of these systems do not comply with any standard for codification, storage and tran...
Mariana Kessler Bortoluzzi, Aldo von Wangenheim, K...
Currently, minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) faces several limitations, including inadequate training methods using non-realistic models, insufficient surgery planning usin...
Marcin Wierzbicki, Maria Drangova, Gerard Guiraudo...
A force sensor based method to detect the instant of needle puncture to the layers of tissues is proposed. A set of needle and sheath attached to a pair of coaxial force sensors wa...
Abstract. This paper introduces a novel method for ultrasound (US) probe calibration based on closed-form formulation and using minimal US imaging allowing for an immediate result....
Anand Viswanathan, Emad Boctor, Russell H. Taylor,...
Abstract. We introduce a new, efficient approach for modelling the deformation of organs following surgical cuts, retractions, and resections. It uses the extended finite element ...
Lara M. Vigneron, Jacques G. Verly, Simon K. Warfi...
A method is presented for interpolation between neighbouring slices in a grey-scale tomographic data set, when a high-resolution image of the same patient is also available. Spatia...
Graeme P. Penney, Julia A. Schnabel, Daniel Ruecke...