This paper presents a survey of the state-of-the-art deformable models studied in the
literature, with regard to soft tissue deformable modeling for interactive surgical simulation. It …

BACKGROUND: Computer-based surgical simulators create a no-risk virtual environment
where surgeons can develop and refine skills through harmless repetition. These …

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

This paper provides a survey of medical applications that make use of Web3D technologies,
covering the period from 1995 to 2005. We assess the impact that Web3D has made on …

The medical domain provides excellent opportunities for the application of computer
graphics, visualization and virtual environments, with the potential to help improve …

We present a framework that combines evolutionary optimisation, soft tissue modelling and
ray tracing on GPU to simultaneously compute the respiratory motion and X-ray imaging in …

Background Surgical simulation based on augmented reality (AR), mixing the benefits of
physical and virtual simulation, represents a step forward in surgical training. However …

Abstract Purpose Training in Interventional Radiology currently uses the apprenticeship
model, where clinical and technical skills of invasive procedures are learnt during practice in …

This paper presents a new ChainMail method for real-time soft tissue simulation. This
method enables the use of different material properties for chain elements to accommodate …

Purpose We present here a simulator for interventional radiology focusing on percutaneous
transhepatic cholangiography (PTC). This procedure consists of inserting a needle into the …