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MICCAI
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Photo-Realistic Tissue Reflectance Modelling for Minimally Invasive Surgical Simulation
Computer-based simulation is an important tool for surgical skills training and assessment. In general, the degree of realism experienced by the trainees is determined by the visua...
Mohamed A. ElHelw, M. Stella Atkins, Marios Nicola...
TITB
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Miniature in vivo Robots for Remote and Harsh Environments
Abstract--Long-term human space exploration will require contingencies for emergency medical procedures including some capability to perform surgery. The ability to perform minimal...
Mark Rentschler, Stephen R. Platt, Kyle R. Berg, J...
APIN
1998
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14 years 9 months ago
Evolution-Based Methods for Selecting Point Data for Object Localization: Applications to Computer-Assisted Surgery
Object localization has applications in many areas of engineering and science. The goal is to spatially locate an arbitrarily-shaped object. In many applications, it is desirable ...
Shumeet Baluja, David Simon
ISBMS
2010
Springer
14 years 12 months ago
A Point-Based Simulation Framework for Minimally Invasive Surgery
In this paper, we present a physically-based simulation framework to build up real-time Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) simulators using pointbased techniques. In our framework, s...
Bo Zhu, Lixu Gu, Xiaopeng Peng, Zhe Zhou
MICCAI
2003
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Determining Epicardial Surface Motion Using Elastic Registration: Towards Virtual Reality Guidance of Minimally Invasive Cardiac
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is performed on the beating heart, through inter-costal ports. The two major limitations of these procedures are: selecting port locations for op...
Marcin Wierzbicki, Terry M. Peters