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Research
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Medical
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Surgery
Simulation
Computer-based
surgery simulation represents a rapidly emerging
and more important area of research that combines
a number of disciplines for the common purpose
of improving health care. Surgery simulation systems
ideally provide an efficient, safe, realistic,
and relatively economical method for training
clinicians in a variety of surgical tasks.
The emphasis in surgery simulation is usually
placed on a user's real-time interaction with
medical instruments, surgery techniques, and models
that represent various anatomical structures and
physiological processes.
Computers provide a framework for exploring a
variety of approaches in interactive 3D graphics,
animation, visualization, user interface design,
and human-computer interaction, all of which play
a very important role in the design of the simulation.
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Image
Processing and Vision |
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The
overall objective of this research is to explore
ways to extract information from imagery, and
subsequently analyze, characterize, understand,
and visualize the extracted information. The images
of interest include two-dimensional (2D) views,
three-dimensional (3D) volumetric data sets, and
temporally evolving 2D and 3D image sequences,
focusing on medical imagery. Computer vision and
image processing methods underlie this research,
drawing from a number of approaches, including
knowledge-, model-, and physically-based paradigms,
as well as morphological and connectionist techniques.
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