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ICAT
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluation and User Study of Haptic Simulator for Learning Palpation in Cardiovascular Surgery
This study presents a haptic simulator for learning palpation of aorta in cardiovascular surgery and performs quantitative evaluation in educational use through some user study. T...
Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda, Masaru Komori, Hiro...
CARS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Haptic interaction in VR-based paracentesis simulation for dexterity enhancement and assessment
In this paper we describe the development of an interactive virtual reality (VR) system that aims to realistically simulate specific paracentesis clinical procedures (particularly ...
Costas S. Tzafestas, Yiannis Koumpouros, Kostas Bi...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 15 hour ago
Active Volume Models for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
In this paper, we propose a novel predictive model for object boundary, which can integrate information from any sources. The model is a dynamic “object” model whose manifes...
Tian Shen (Lehigh University), Hongsheng Li (Lehig...
CA
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Physically-based Animation of Volumetric Objects
This paper presents a voxel-based animation technique which employs either a massspring modelor a niteelementmodel. The voxel-basedmeshis generated in a pre-processing step. Two v...
Yan Chen, Qing-hong Zhu, Arie E. Kaufman, Shigeru ...
PRESENCE
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Modeling of Tool-Tissue Interactions for Computer-Based Surgical Simulation: A Literature Review
Surgical simulators present a safe and potentially effective method for surgical training, and can also be used in robot-assisted surgery for pre- and intra-operative planning. Ac...
Sarthak Misra, K. T. Ramesh, Allison M. Okamura