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MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Parallel Robotic System with Force Sensors for Percutaneous Procedures Under CT-Guidance
Abstract. This paper presents a new robotic framework for assisted CTguided percutaneous procedures with force feedback and automatic patientto-image registration of needle. The pu...
Benjamin Maurin, Jacques Gangloff, Bernard Bayle, ...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Statistical Shape Modelling of the Levator Ani with Thickness Variation
The levator ani is vulnerable to injury during childbirth and effective surgical intervention requires full knowledge of the morphology and mechanical properties of the muscle stru...
Su-Lin Lee, Paramate Horkaew, Ara Darzi, Guang-Zho...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Stereo-Based Endoscopic Tracking of Cardiac Surface Deformation
We propose an image-based motion tracking algorithm that can be used with stereo endoscopic and microscope systems. The tracking problem is considered to be a time-varying optimiza...
William W. Lau, Nicholas A. Ramey, Jason J. Corso,...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Registration Using Segment Intensity Remapping and Mutual Information
A method for processing images prior to normalized mutual information based registration and an enhancement of the registration measure are presented. The method relies on k-means ...
Zeger F. Knops, J. B. Antoine Maintz, Max A. Vierg...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
An Anisotropic Material Model for Image Guided Neurosurgery
In order to combine preoperative data with intraoperative scans for image-guided neurosurgery visualization, accurate registration is necessary. It has been determined previously t...
Corey Kemper, Ion-Florin Talos, Alexandra Golby, P...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Ventricle Registration for Inter-subject White Matter Lesion Analysis
Cynthia Jongen, Jeroen van der Grond, Josien P. W....
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Detecting Functional Connectivity of the Cerebellum Using Low Frequency Fluctuations (LFFs)
Abstract. So far, resting state functional connectivity (RSFC) has been performed mainly by seed correlation analysis (SCA) on functional MRI (fMRI) studies. In previous studies, t...
Yong He, Yufeng Zang, Tianzi Jiang, Meng Liang, Ga...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 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