Interactive Deformation for Surgery Simulation

This project is concerned with the simulation of the perceived environment which a surgeon encounters when he or she is performing an endoscopic surgery procedure. For our prototyping we are focusing specificly on abdominal procedures which target the removal of the gall bladder.

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The above MPEG sequence is a real time fly through done in our current system. Because the mpeg file does not contain any timing information, the rate you see it at is most likely not the actual interactive speed. The interactive speed in the system is about 10 frames per second.

Project Members:

From Georgia Tech

• Dr. Norberto F. Ezquerra
• James F. O'Brien

From Medical College of Georgia

• Richard Rowe
• Thomas Gadacz
• Ellen Palm

References:

• S. A. Cover, N. F. Ezquerra, J. F. O'Brien, et. al., "Interactively Deformable Models for Surgery Simulation", IEEE: Computer Graphics and Applications, November 1993, Vol 13, No 6., pp. 68-75.