This paper presents a survey of the state-of-the-art deformable models studied in the
literature, with regard to soft tissue deformable modeling for interactive surgical simulation. It …

Deformable models have raised much interest and found various applications in the fields of
computer vision and medical imaging. They provide an extensible framework to reconstruct …

Visualization is the process of representing data, information, and knowledge in a visual
form to support the tasks of exploration, confirmation, presentation, and understanding. This …

Physically based deformable models have been widely embraced by the Computer
Graphics community. Many problems outlined in a previous survey by Gibson and Mirtich …

For many novel applications, such as patient-specific computer-aided surgery, conventional
solution techniques of the underlying nonlinear problems are usually computationally too …

Blob trackers have become increasingly powerful in recent years largely due to the adoption
of statistical appearance models which allow effective background subtraction and robust …

This paper presents a robust, adaptive method for animating dynamic visco-elastic
deformable objects that provides a guaranteed frame rate. Our approach uses a novel …

Surgical simulation for medical education is increasingly perceived as a valuable addition to
traditional teaching methods. Simulators provide a structured learning experience …

This study deals with an underexplored area of the emerging technologies debate: robotics
in the healthcare setting. The author explores the role of care and develops a value …

Visualization in Medicine is the first book on visualization and its application to problems in
medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book describes the algorithms, the …