Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions: 4th International Conference, IPCAI 2013, Heidelberg, Germany, June 26, 2013. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Patrick Wucherer, Philipp Stefan, Simon Weidert, Pascal Fallavollita, Nassir Navab (auth.), Dean Barratt, Stéphane Cotin, Gabor Fichtinger, Pierre Jannin, Nassir Navab (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 121
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7915 Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions IPCAI 2013, held in Heidelberg, Germany, on June 26, 2013. The 11 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on simulation, neurosurgical interventions, ultrasound guided interventions, and image guided interventions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Development and Procedural Evaluation of Immersive Medical Simulation Environments....Pages 1-10
Generation of Synthetic 4D Cardiac CT Images for Guidance of Minimally Invasive Beating Heart Interventions....Pages 11-20
Intra-operative Identification of the Subthalamic Nucleus Motor Zone Using Goniometers....Pages 21-29
Model-Guided Placement of Cerebral Ventricular Catheters....Pages 30-39
Ultrasound-Based Image Guidance for Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: Initial in-vivo Results....Pages 40-50
Augmentation of Paramedian 3D Ultrasound Images of the Spine....Pages 51-60
3D Segmentation of Curved Needles Using Doppler Ultrasound and Vibration....Pages 61-70
Mobile EM Field Generator for Ultrasound Guided Navigated Needle Insertions....Pages 71-80
First Flexible Robotic Intra-operative Nuclear Imaging for Image-Guided Surgery....Pages 81-90
Robust Real-Time Image-Guided Endoscopy: A New Discriminative Structural Similarity Measure for Video to Volume Registration....Pages 91-100
Declustering n -Connected Components for Segmentation of Iodine Implants in C-Arm Fluoroscopy Images....Pages 101-110
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Health Informatics; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition; Simulation and Modeling; Computer Applications