Virtual and augmented reality environments have been adopted in medicine as a means to
enhance the clinician's view of the anatomy and facilitate the performance of minimally …

Mixed reality environments for medical applications have been explored and developed
over the past three decades in an effort to enhance the clinician's view of anatomy and …

The shift to minimally invasive abdominal surgery has increased reliance on image
guidance during surgical procedures. However, these images are most often presented …

Cardiopulmonary bypass surgery, although a highly invasive interventional approach
leading to numerous complications, is still the most common therapy option for treating many …

Minimizing invasiveness associated with cardiac procedures has led to limited visual access
to the target tissues. To address these limitations, we have developed a visualization …

Motivation Medical imaging and its application in interventional guidance has revolutionized
the development of minimally invasive surgical procedures leading to reduced patient …

This paper proposes an approach for using force-controlled exploration data to update and
register an a-priori virtual fixture geometry to a corresponding deformed and displaced …

Trans-esophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a standard component of patient monitoring
during most cardiac surgeries. In recent years magnetic tracking systems (MTS) have …

The development of an augmented reality environment that combines laparoscopic video
and ultrasound imaging for image-guided minimally invasive abdominal surgical …

In image-guided interventions, anatomical models of organs are often generated from pre-
operative images and further employed in planning and guiding therapeutic procedures …