Image-guided surgery is being increasingly used in craniomaxillofacial tumor surgery,
trauma surgery, orthognathic surgery, and implant surgery. Compared with conventional …

The growth of medical robotics since the mid-1980s has been striking. From a few initial
efforts in stereotactic brain surgery, orthopaedics, endoscopic surgery, microsurgery, and …

Purpose Surgical robotics has developed throughout the past 30 years resulting in more
than 5000 different approaches proposed for various surgical disciplines supporting different …

Visual Computing for Medicine, Second Edition, offers cutting-edge visualization techniques
and their applications in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book includes …

Background We developed an image‐guided robot system to provide mechanical
assistance for skull base drilling, which is performed to gain access for some neurosurgical …

This paper describes a spatial-motion-constraints-generation approach for a human-
machine collaborative surgical-assistant system from registered computer tomography …

Despite successful clinical applications, teleoperated robotic surgical systems face particular
limitations in the functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) in terms of incompatible …

The role of virtual reality in surgical training in otorhino... : Current Opinion in Otolaryngology &
Head and Neck Surgery The role of virtual reality in surgical training in otorhinolaryngology …

Segmentation of medical image data is getting more and more important over the last years.
The results are used for diagnosis, surgical planning or workspace definition of robot …

The theoretical foundations and principles of computer planning for functional rhinosurgical
interventions are proposed in this paper. The theoretical base, stages and possibilities of …