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MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Improved Non-rigid Registration of Prostate MRI
This paper introduces a fast non-rigid registration method
Aloys du Bois d'Aische, Mathieu De Craene, Steven ...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Mapping Template Heart Models to Patient Data Using Image Registration
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...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Needle Force Sensor, Robust and Sensitive Detection of the Instant of Needle Puncture
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...
Toshikatsu Washio, Kiyoyuki Chinzei
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A CT-Free Intraoperative Planning and Navigation System for High Tibial Dome Osteotomy
Gongli Wang, Guoyan Zheng, Paul Alfred Grützn...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Immediate Ultrasound Calibration with Three Poses and Minimal Image Processing
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,...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Modelling Surgical Cuts, Retractions, and Resections via Extended Finite Element Method
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...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Registration-Based Interpolation Using a High-Resolution Image for Guidance
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...
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,...