There are many roles for electromechanical devices in image guided surgery. One is to help a surgeon accurately follow a preoperative plan. Devices for this purpose may be localiz...
Jocelyne Troccaz, Michael A. Peshkin, Brian L. Dav...
This paper presents a simple radiologicd image guidance method and robotic system optimized for percutaneous procedures.This simplicity is achieved by combining the proven guidance...
Dan Stoianovici, Jeffrey A. Cadeddu, Roger D. Dema...
E cient and powerful topologically adaptable deformable surfaces can be created by embedding and de ning discrete deformable surface models in terms of an A ne Cell Decomposition (...
Shape-based registration is a process for estimating the transformation between two shape representations of an object. It is used in many image-guided surgical systems to establis...
In order to use pre-operative images during an operation for navigation, they must be registered to the patient's coordinate system in the operating theater or to an intra-ope...