The effectiveness and clinical benefits of image guided surgery are
well established for procedures where there is manageable tissue motion. In
minimally invasive cardiac, gastro...
Abstract. Morphological knowledge (inflection, derivation, compounds) is useful for medical language processing. Some is available for medical English in the UMLS Specialist Lexic...
Medical errors are now recognized as a major cause of untimely deaths or other adverse medical outcomes. To reduce the number of medical errors, the Medical Safety Project at the U...
Lori A. Clarke, Yao Chen, George S. Avrunin, Bin C...
Navigation during Minimally Invasive Surgery
(MIS) has recognized difficulties due to limited field-of-view,
off-axis visualization and loss of direct 3D vision. This can cause
...
Accurate estimation and tracking of dynamic tissue deformation is important to motion compensation, intra-operative surgical guidance and navigation in minimally invasive surgery. ...
The use of vision based algorithms in minimally invasive surgery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its potential in providing in situ 3D tissue deformation...
Peter Mountney, Benny P. L. Lo, Surapa Thiemjarus,...
Medical ontologies are developed to solve problems such as the demand for reusing, sharing and transmitting data. The unambiguous communication of complex and detailed medical conc...
Today’s medical institutions produce enormous amounts of data on patients, including multimedia data, which is increasingly produced in digital form. These data in their clinica...
Searching for medical information on the Web is highly popular these days. To facilitate ordinary people to perform medical search and preliminary disease self-diagnosis, we have ...
Medical text mining has gained increasing interest in recent years. Radiology reports contain rich information describing radiologist’s observations on the patient’s medical c...