Computer Aided Surgery

Part I. Medical Robotics and Instrumentation

1. Brain Activity Analysis for the Configurational Determination of Surgical Manipulation and Endoscope
Satoshi Miura, Yo Kobayashi, Kazuya Kawamura, Masatoshi Seki, Yasutaka Nakashima, Takehiko Noguchi, Yuki Yokoo, Masakatsu G. Fujie

2. 3D Tracking of Respiratory Liver Movement by a Robot Assisted Medical Ultrasound
Ryu Nakadate, Ammar Safwan, Hiroyuki Ishii, Akiko Saito, Atsuo Takanishi, Makoto Hashizume

3. Development of a Robot Assisted Intubation System and Parameter Optimization
Chuntao Leng, Qixin Cao, Guodong Sheng, Yang Cao, Tiewen Pan

4. Development of a Dexterous Manipulator for Single Port Access Surgery
Quanquan Liu, Yo Kobayashi, Bo Zhang, Makoto Hashizume, Masakatsu G. Fujie

5. Motion Control of a Master–Slave Minimally Invasive Surgical Robot Based on the Hand-Eye-Coordination
Aolin Tang, Qixin Cao, Hongbing Tan, Masakatsu G. Fujie, Tiewen Pan

Part II. Medical Image Computing, Visualization and Navigation

6. Liver Function Region Segmentation in Nuclear Medicine Using Mean Shift and Level Set Methods
Fang Chen, Shu Zhu, Yizhuang Cheng, Xiaobo Yao, Weimin Huang, Etsuko Kobayashi, Bing Nan Li

7. A Pilot Study of the Physiological Assessment of 3D Camera Using the 128 Channel EEG
Hisae Aoki, Hiromasa Yamashita, Toshiyuki Mori, Akio Mori, Toshio Chiba

8. Self-registration of Ultrasound Imaging Device to Navigation System Using Surgical Instrument Kinematics in Minimally Invasive Procedure
L. Yang, J. Wang, H. Liao, H. Yamashita, I. Sakuma, T. Chiba, E. Kobayashi

9. An Application of Robot Arm for Dynamic Field of View Expansion During Laparoscopy
Atul Kumar, Yen-Yu Wang, Ching-Jen Wu, Kai-Che Liu, Anant Vemuri, Chi-Hsiang Wu, Hurng-Sheng Wu, Jacques Marescaux

10. Evaluation of Safety and Performance in Robots for Knee Replacement Surgery Based on Standards
Youngjin Moon, Dukhee Lee, Seongjun Kim, Songe Choi, Jaesoon Choi

11. Fast Surgical Algorithm for Cutting with Liver Standard Triangulation Language Format Using Z-Buffers in Graphics Processing Unit
Hiroshi Noborio, Katsuhiko Onishi, Masanao Koeda, Kiminori Mizushino, Takahiro Kunii, Masaki Kaibori, Masanori Kon, Yen-Wei Chen

12. Evaluation of Elapsed Times for Surgical Workflow of Deep Brain Stimulation: A Preliminary Report
Hyung Wook Kim, Hyoung-Joon Chun, Young Soo Kim

Avainsanat: Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics, Imaging / Radiology, General Surgery