Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1205

Citation

(1999), "Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1205", Industrial Robot, Vol. 26 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.1999.04926fae.001

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1205

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1205

Keywords: Medical, Robots, Robotics, Computer aided, VR, Simulation

CVRMed-MRCAS '97 - Proceedings of the First Joint Conference: Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine and Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery, March 1997

J. Troccaz, E. Grimson and R. Mösges (Eds)Springer-Verlag1997834 pp.ISBN 3-540-62734-0£59.00

CVRMed-MRCAS '97 offers research results in computer assisted medicine and medical informatics in the form of 92 relevant papers. The 76 regular revised papers and 16 clinical papers cover medical imaging, virtual reality, medical robotics, and computer-integrated therapy and surgery.

Section 1 addresses Segmentation and deformable models and comprises ten papers, which include "Non-rigid image registration using bone growth model" and "Automatic detection of articular surfaces in 3D image through minimal subset random sampling". Sections 2 and 3 cover 3D/2D registration, containing four papers including "Surgical instrument guidance using synthesised anatomical structures" and Validation of registration techniques, containing five papers, respectively.

The fourth, fifth and sixth sections address Analysis of cardiac and vascular images, Image-guided punctures of soft tissues and Basic tools and applications in endoscopy. Between these sections 20 papers are included.

Section 7, Simulation and augmented reality, comprises eight papers including "Design consideration for a computer-vision-enabled ophthalmic augmented reality environment". The following section, Brain models and neurosurgery, comprises nine papers which include "Three-dimensional tracking with ultrasound for augmented reality applications in skull base surgery".

Basic tools and applications in spine surgery, with three papers and Basic tools and applications in hip and pelvis surgery, containing nine papers, make up sections 9 and 10. Section 11, Basic tools and applications in knee surgery, presents "Computer assisted planning for total knee arthroplasty", "A minimally-invasive 3D data registration protocol for computer and robot-assisted total knee arthroplasty" and another four papers.

The final three sections of the book discuss Basic tools and applications in radiotherapy (five papers), Robotic systems in Computer-Integrated Surgery (five papers) and Basic tools and applications in tele- and micro- surgery, which contains seven papers. Of these 17 papers, the following four may be of particular interest to the reader. "Eye reconstruction and CT-retinography fusion for proton treatment planning of ocular diseases", "A compact robot for image-guided orthopaedic surgery: concept and preliminary results", "The development of a microrobot system for colonoscopy" and "Performance measurement in scaled teleoperation for microsurgery".

Overall this book is well written, comprehensive and should be of relevance to clinicians, medical engineers, and computer scientists. It also contains plenty of references for further reading.