Lecture notes in computer science, 7915.; LNCS sublibrary., SL 6,, Image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, and graphics.
Simulation. Development and Procedural Evaluation of Immersive Medical Simulation Environments / Patrick Wucherer, Philipp Stefan, Simon Weidert, Pascal Fallavollita, Nassir Navab --; Generation of Synthetic 4D Cardiac CT Images for Guidance of Minimally Invasive Beating Heart Interventions / Feng P. Li, Martin Rajchl, James A. White, Aashish Goela, Terry M. Peters --; Neurosurgical Interventions. Intra-operative Identification of the Subthalamic Nucleus Motor Zone Using Goniometers / Reuben R. Shamir, Renana Eitan, Sivan Sheffer, Odeya Marmor-Levin, Dan Valsky --; Model-Guided Placement of Cerebral Ventricular Catheters / Ingerid Reinertsen, Asgeir Jakola, Ole Solheim, Frank Lindseth, Geirmund Unsgård --; Ultrasound-Guided Interventions. Ultrasound-Based Image Guidance for Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: Initial in-vivo Results / Omid Mohareri, Caitlin Schneider, Troy K. Adebar, Mike C. Yip, Peter Black --; Augmentation of Paramedian 3D Ultrasound Images of the Spine / Abtin Rasoulian, Robert N. Rohling, Purang Abolmaesumi --; 3D Segmentation of Curved Needles Using Doppler Ultrasound and Vibration / Troy K. Adebar, Allison M. Okamura --; Mobile EM Field Generator for Ultrasound Guided Navigated Needle Insertions / Keno März, Alfred M. Franz, Bram Stieltjes, Justin Iszatt, Alexander Seitel --; Image-Guided Interventions. First Flexible Robotic Intra-operative Nuclear Imaging for Image-Guided Surgery / José Gardiazabal, Tobias Reichl, Aslı Okur, Tobias Lasser, Nassir Navab --; Robust Real-Time Image-Guided Endoscopy: A New Discriminative Structural Similarity Measure for Video to Volume Registration / Xiongbiao Luo, Hirotsugu Takabatake, Hiroshi Natori, Kensaku Mori --; Declustering n-Connected Components for Segmentation of Iodine Implants in C-Arm Fluoroscopy Images / Chiara Amat di San Filippo, Gabor Fichtinger, William James Morris.
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.