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IPCAI
2010
13 years 10 months ago
First Animal Cadaver Study for Interlocking of Intramedullary Nails under Camera Augmented Mobile C-arm
The Camera Augmented Mobile C-arm (CamC) system that augments a regular mobile C-arm by a video camera provides an overlay image of X-ray and video. This technology is expected to ...
Lejing Wang, Jürgen Landes, Simon Weidert, To...
IPCAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
New Kinematic Metric for Quantifying Surgical Skill for Flexible Instrument Manipulation
Colonoscopy is a minimally invasive endoscopic procedure to survey, diagnose and treat possible disease in the colon. Clinicians are trained to manipulate a colonoscope while minim...
Jagadeesan Jayender, Raúl San José E...
IPCAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Active Multispectral Illumination and Image Fusion for Retinal Microsurgery
It has been shown that white light exposure during retinal microsurgeries is detrimental to patients. To address this problem, we present a novel device and image processing tool, ...
Raphael Sznitman, Seth Billings, Diego Rother, Dan...
IPCAI
2010
14 years 2 months ago
Visualization and Planning of Neurosurgical Interventions with Straight Access
Image-guided neurosurgical interventional procedures utilize medical imaging techniques to identify the most appropriate path for accessing a targeted structure. Often, preoperativ...
Nikhil V. Navkar, Nikolaos V. Tsekos, R. Jason Sta...
IPCAI
2010
14 years 4 months ago
Ultrasound Servoing of Catheters for Beating Heart Valve Repair
Robotic cardiac catheters have the potential to revolutionize heart surgery by extending minimally invasive techniques to complex surgical repairs inside the heart. However, cathet...
Samuel B. Kesner, Shelten G. Yuen, Robert D. Howe
IPCAI
2010
14 years 4 months ago
Evaluation of a 4D Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction Approach Using an Anthropomorphic Phantom
Abstract. We have previously developed image-guided navigation systems for thoracic abdominal interventions utilizing a three dimensional (3D) Cone-Beam CT (CBCT) image acquired at...
Ziv Yaniv, Jan Boese, Marily Sarmiento, Kevin Clea...