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...
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, ...
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...
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,...