Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 02/10

Digital Upgrades: Applying Moore’s Law to Health

J.D. Westwood, H.M. Hoffman, R.A. Robb, James D. Westwood, Helene M. Hoffman, Richard A. Robb, D. Stredney

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN: 9781586032036
• eBook ISBN: 9781607509295
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Bioinformatics
• Index: Computer Science

The book offers papers on many aspects of electronic technology in healthcare. Core areas are imaging, simulation, visualization, data networks, sensors, robotics, and displays. Medical applications include information-guided surgery, education and procedural training, telemedicine, immersive environments, stereoscopic projection, diagnostic tools, rehabilitation, and augmented reality. The papers describe both completed projects and recent developments in ongoing research. The book is a the collection of papers of the 10th annual ""Medicine Meets Virtual Reality"" conference (January 2002). This volume is a resource for computer scientists working in medical context, and for creators of data-focused products for clinical care, medical education, and procedural training.

Table of contents

• Title page
• Preface
• Contents
• The Virtualization of Medicine: A Decade of Pitfalls and Progress
• Moore's Law, Disruptive Technologies, and the Clinician
• Heuristic Haptic Texture for Surgical Simulations
• Mastoidectomy Simulation with Combined Visual and Haptic Feedback
• Tele-Immersive Medical Educational Environment
• An Immersive Simulation Systemfor Provoking and Analyzing Cataplexy
• Soft-tissue simulation using LEM - Long Elements Method
• Self-Administered Decision Support Tool for Triage: Results of a Retrospective Study
• Calibration and Accuracy Testing for Image-Enhanced Endoscopy
• Open Surgery Simulation
• Virtual Reality-Based Post-Stroke Hand Rehabilitation
• Computer-Controlled Motorized Endoscopic Grasper for In Vivo Measurement of Soft Tissue Biomechanical Characteristics
• Generalized Interactions Using Virtual Tools within the Spring Framework: Probing, Piercing, Cauterizing and Ablating
• Generalized Interactions Using Virtual Tools within the Spring Framework: Cutting
• Volumetric Implant-Planning Based on Symmetry Considerations
• Clinical Test for Attention Enhancement System
• Training and Pretreatment Planning of Interventional Neuroradiology Procedures- Initial Clinical Validation
• Navigation by Walking Around: Using the Pressure Mat to Move in Virtual Worlds
• Intraoperative guidance of pre-planned bone deformations with a surface scanning system
• Creating a statistical atlas of the cranium
• Augmented Reality and Training for Airway Management Procedures
• Multimodal Simulation of Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy Using a Meshless Technique
• Imaging and Visualization of Pathology Beneath the Retinal Surface
• 'Putting It on the Table' Direct-manipulative interaction and multi-user display technologies for semi-immersive environments and augmented reality applications
• Quantitative Image Analysis of the Cartilage in Virtual Reality
• Using Mixed Reality, Force Feedback and Tactile Augmentation to Improve the Realism of Medical Simulation
• Wireless Live Streaming Video of Laparoscopic Surgery: A Bandwidth Analysis for Handheld Computers
• Using Semi-automated Image Processing and Desktop Systems to Incorporate Actual Patient Volumetric Data In Immersive Surgical Planning and Viewing Systems for Multiple Patients
• Interactive Simulation of the Teeth Cleaning Processusing Volumetric Prototypes
• A Haptic Virtual Environment for Tele-Echography
• Cryotherapy Simulator for Localized Prostate Cancer
• Reliability and Validity of Endo Tower, a Virtual Reality Trainer for Angled Endoscope Navigation
• Volumetric Virtual Body Structures
• Intraoperative 3D Shape Recovery of Abdominal Organs for Laparoscopic Data Fusion
• Improved Haptic Rendering of Anatomical Data
• Atlas-based segmentation of pathological knee joints
• A New, Accurate and Easy To Implement Camera and Video Projector Model
• An Investigation of Immersiveness in Virtual Reality Exposure Using Physiological Data
• Using Stereoscopy for Medical Virtual Reality
• A Virtual Environment for Esophageal Intubation Training
• Visible Korean Human: Another Trial for Making Serially-Sectioned Images
• High Performance Bilateral Telerobot Control
• Daily patient set-up control in radiation therapy by coded light projection
• The Development and Clinical Trial of a Driving Simulator for the Handicapped
• Realtime Textured 3D-Models for Medical Applications
• 3D Structure from Endoscopic Images
• Visualization and Attributation of Vascular Structures for Diagnostics and Therapy Planning
• Development of a Virtual Speaking Simulator Using Image Based Rendering
• Real-time Soft Tissue Modelling for Web based Surgical Simulation: SurfaceChainMail
• Virtual Food in Virtual Environments for the Treatment of Eating Disorders
• Advancements in Immersive VR as a Tool for Preoperative Planning for Laparoscopic Surgery
• Quantitative Methodology of Evaluating Surgeon Performance in Laparoscopic Surgery
• Anesthesiology Point of Care Project
• CT, MRI and Video Based Analysis of Knee Kinematics - A Basis for CT based Simulation
• Spring: A General Framework for Collaborative, Real-time Surgical Simulation
• Objective Surgical Performance Evaluation based on Haptic Feedback
• Nasal Airflow Diagnosis -Comparison of experimental Studies and Computer simulations
• Virtual Reality Therapy: Case Study of Fear of Public Speaking
• Virtual Image Grafting: Image Based Generation and Visualization of Virtual Skin Defects
• In vivo measurement of solid organ viscoelastic properties
• On Defining Metrics for Assessing Laparoscopic Surgical Skills in a Virtual Training Environment
• A Virtual Fluoroscopy System and its use for Image Guidance in Unicompartmental Knee Surgery
• Neuropsychological Performance and Integrated Evaluation for Disabled People using Virtual Reality: Integrated VR Profile
• Virtual Environment System for Motor Tele-Rehabilitation
• Shared Virtual Environments for Telerehabilitation
• A New Approach for the Synthesis of Glistening Effect in Deformable Anatomical Objects Displayed with Haptic Feedback
• Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Pressure Sensor Data Acquired by the E-Pelvis Simulator During Simulated Pelvic Examinations
• Visual Representations of Physical Abilities: Reverse Haptic Technology?
• Simulation of bleeding during laparoscopic herniorrhaphy
• A New Haptic Interface for VR Medical Training
• The VEPSY UPDATED Project: Technical and Clinical Rationale
• e-Health in Eating Disorders: Virtual Reality and Telemedicine in Assessment and Treatment
• Training and Assessment of Laparoscopic Skills using a Haptic Simulator
• The Blue DRAGON - A System for Monitoring the Kinematics and the Dynamics of Endoscopic Tools in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Objective Laparoscopic Skill Assessment
• A tutorial platform suitable for surgical simulator training (SimMentor)
• Protocols for Clinical Tests on Parkinson Disease Affected Persons and Comparison with Healthy People with a Quantitative Method of a New System Daphne
• First Clinical Trials for Neuromotor Analysis
• Stroke Rehabilitation at Home using Virtual Reality, Haptics and Telemedicine
• Feature Preserving Refinement of Surfaces for Web-based Surgical Simulation
• Risk Reduction in Craniofacial Surgery using Computer-based Modeling and Intraoperative Immersion
• Adaptive Hybrid Interpolation Techniques for Direct Haptic Rendering of Isosurfaces
• An Augmented Reality System for Ultrasound Guided Needle Biopsies
• Automatic patient registration in computer assisted maxillofacial surgery
• Exploratory Design and Evaluation of a User Interface for Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
• Limits of Human Perception of Haptic Information in Minimally Invasive Surgery Tools for Use in Simulation
• The DextroBeam: a stereoscopic presentation system for volumetric medical data
• Interactive Visualization of Four-Dimensional Ultrasound Data
• Reshaping Medical Volumetric Data for Enhanced Visualization
• Visualization of conserved structures by fusing highly variable datasets
• A system for simulation and monitoring of robot-assisted and navigation-assisted surgical interventions (Part 1)
• A new approach for modelling kinematic dependencies for monitoring locations ofobjects in closed kinematic chains (Part 2)
• Temporal Bone Dissection Simulation -- An Update
• Measurement of In-vivo Force Response of Intra-abdominal Soft Tissues for Surgical Simulation
• Estimation of Soft-Tissue Model Parameters Using Registered Pre- and Postoperative Facial Surface Scans
• Virtual Endoscopy using Spherical QuickTime-VR Panorama Views
• Integration of intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) dose distribution into the postoperative CT-based external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) treatment planing
• The application of eyeglass displays in changing the perception of pain
• Evaluation of Visualization Techniques for Image-guided Navigation in Liver Surgery
• Enhanced stereographic x-ray images
• The Communication Between Therapist and Patient in Virtual Reality: The Role of Mediation Played by Computer Technology
• Virtual Reality Assisted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Treatment of Panic Disorders with Agoraphobia.
• Dextrous and Shared Interaction with Medical Data: stereoscopic vision is more important than hand-image collocation
• Usability Analysis of VR Simulation Software
• Elastically Deformable 3D Organs for Haptic Surgical Simulation
• A Generic Arthroscopy Simulator Architecture
• Virtual Reality in 3D Echocardiography: Dynamic Visualization of Atrioventricular Annuli Surface Models and Volume Rendered Doppler-Ultrasound
• Engineering and Algorithm Design for an Image Processing API: A Technical Report on ITK - the Insight Toolkit
• Finite Element (FE) Modeling of the Mandible: from Geometric Model to Tetrahedral Volumetric Mesh
• Author Index