Title page -- Preface -- Conference Organization -- Contents -- Centerline-Based Parametric Model of Colon for Colonoscopy Simulator -- New Tools for Sculpting Cranial Implants in a Shared Haptic Augmented Reality Environment -- Reification of Abstract Concepts to Improve Comprehension Using Interactive Virtual Environments and a Knowledge-Based Design: A Renal Physiology Model -- A Surgical and Fine-Motor Skills Trainer for Everyone? Touch and Force-Feedback in a Virtual Reality Environment for Surgical Training -- A Topologically Faithful, Tissue-Guided, Spatially Varying Meshing Strategy for the Computation of Patient-Specific Head Models for Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery Simulation -- Determination of Face Validity for the Simbionix LAP Mentor Virtual Reality Training Module -- Enhancing the Visual Realism of Hysteroscopy Simulation -- The Surgical Simulation and Training Markup Language (SSTML): An XML-Based Language for Medical Simulation -- Online Robust Model Estimation During In Vivo Needle Insertions -- A Software Framework for Surgical Simulation Virtual Environments -- Augmented Assessment as a Means to Augmented Reality -- A Holographic Collaborative Medical Visualization System -- Bounds for Damping that Guarantee Stability in Mass-Spring Systems -- Bootstrapped Ultrasound Calibration -- Combining High-Fidelity Human Patient Simulators with a Standardized Family Member: A Novel Approach to Teaching Breaking Bad News -- Virtual Environment-Based Training Simulator for Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy -- Evaluation Methods of a Middleware for Networked Surgical Simulations -- A Biomechanical Analysis of Surgeon's Gesture in a Laparoscopic Virtual Scenario -- Smart Tool for Force Measurements During Knee Arthroscopy: In Vivo Human Study -- Factors Affecting Targeting Using the Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery System (CAOSS).

Contouring in 2D While Viewing Stereoscopic 3D Volumes -- Integrative Haptic and Visual Interaction for Simulation of PMMA Injection During Vertebroplasty -- Flow Visualization for Interactive Simulation of Drugs Injection During Chemoembolization -- The Use of a Computer Aided Design (CAD) Environment in 3D Reconstruction of Anatomic Surfaces -- Simulating the Domain of Medical Modeling and Simulation: The Medical Modeling and Simulation Database -- Assessing Cognitive & Motor Performance in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) for Training & Tool Design -- Virtual Patients: Assessment of Synthesized Versus Recorded Speech -- Needle Artifact Localization in 3T MR Images -- Robot-Assisted Needle Placement in Open-MRI: System Architecture, Integration and Validation -- Polymer Film Based Sensor Networks for Non-Invasive Medical Monitoring -- Detecting Trigger Points and Irreversibility Thresholds in Shock and Trauma -- A Haptic VR Milling Surgery Simulator - Using High-Resolution CT-Data -- Virtual Reality Thread Simulation for Laparoscopic Suturing Training -- MRI Image Overlay: Applications to Arthrography Needle Insertion -- Control System Architecture for a Minimally Invasive Surgical Robot -- Metrics for an Interventional Radiology Curriculum: A Case for Standardisation? -- Surgical Multimedia Academic, Research and Training (S.M.A.R.T.) Tool: A Comparative Analysis of Cognitive Efficiency for Two Multimedia Learning Interfaces that Teach the Pre-Procedural Processes for Carpal Tunnel Release -- The Use of a GripForce System to Map Force Distribution Patterns of Laparoscopic Instruments -- Highly-Realistic, Immersive Training Environment for Hysteroscopy -- PelvicSim - A Computational-Experimental System for Biomechanical Evaluation of Female Pelvic Floor Organ Disorders and Associated Minimally Invasive Interventions.

Working Memory and Image Guided Surgical Simulation -- Virtual Acupuncture Human Based on Chinese Visible Human Dataset -- Visualization of a Stationary CPG-Revealing Spinal Wave -- Establishing Navigated Control in Head Surgery -- Can Augmented Force Feedback Facilitate Virtual Target Acquisition Tasks? -- Effectiveness of Haptic Feedback in Open Surgery Simulation and Training Systems -- A Flexible Infrastructure for Delivering Augmented Reality Enabled Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation -- Fast Assessment of Acetabular Coverage Using Stereoscopic Volume Rendering -- Ballistic Injury Simulation Using the Material Point Method -- Use of Surgical Videos for Realistic Simulation of Surgical Procedures -- Pulse!! - A Virtual Learning Space Project -- Real-Time Augmented Feedback Benefits Robotic Laparoscopic Training -- Computer-Aided Forensics: Metal Object Detection -- Parametric Modeling and Simulation of Trocar Insertion -- Exploiting Graphics Hardware for Haptic Authoring -- An Interactive Stereoscopic Display for Cooperative Work - Volume Visualization and Manipulation with Multiple Users -- 3D Live-Wires on Mosaic Volumes -- Surgical PACS for the Digital Operating Room -- Smooth Vasculature Reconstruction with Circular and Elliptic Cross Sections -- Towards a VR Trainer for EVAR Treatment -- Gestalt Operating Room Display Design for Perioperative Team Situation Awareness -- Integrating Surgical Robots into the Next Medical Toolkit -- Study of Laparoscopic Forces Perception for Defining Simulation Fidelity -- Computer Prediction of Balloon Angioplasty from Artery Imaging -- Efficient Topology Modification and Deformation for Finite Element Models Using Condensation -- Physics-Based Models for Catheter, Guidewire and Stent Simulation -- A Web-Based Repository of Surgical Simulator Projects.

GiPSiNet: An Open Source/Open Architecture Network Middleware for Surgical Simulations -- Measurement of the Mechanical Response of Intra-Abdominal Organs of Fresh Human Cadavers for Use in Surgical Simulation -- A VR Planning System for Craniosynostosis Surgery -- Real-Time Finite Element Based Virtual Tissue Cutting -- The Design and Implementation of a Pulmonary Artery Catheterization Simulator -- Flat Maps: A Multi-Layer Parameterization for Surgery Simulation -- Second Generation Haptic Ventriculostomy Simulator Using the ImmersiveTouchTM System -- Hybrid Analysis of a Spherical Mechanism for a Minimally Invasive Surgical (MIS) Robot - Design Concepts for Multiple Optimizations -- Data Mining of the E-Pelvis Simulator Database: A Quest for a Generalized Algorithm for Objectively Assessing Medical Skill -- Segmenting the Visible Human Female -- A Discrete Soft Tissue Model for Complex Anatomical Environment Simulations -- Image-Guided Laser Projection for Port Placement in Minimally Invasive Surgery -- Planning and Analyzing Robotized TMS Using Virtual Reality -- Medical Student Evaluation Using Augmented Standardized Patients: Preliminary Results -- Direct Volumetric Rendering Based on Point Primitives in OpenGL -- A Haptic Device for Guide Wire in Interventional Radiology Procedures -- Computer-Aided Navigation for Arthroscopic Hip Surgery Using Encoder Linkages for Position Tracking -- Project Hydra - A New Paradigm of Internet-Based Surgical Simulation -- Fast Rigid Registration in Radiation Therapy -- Can Immersive Virtual Reality Reduce Phantom Limb Pain? -- Interactive Simulation Training: Computer Simulated Standardized Patients for Medical Diagnosis -- Soft-Tissue Balance Evaluation System for Total Hip Arthroplasty by Intraoperative Contact Pressure Measurement at the Hip Joint.

Algorithmically Generated Music Enhances VR Nephron Simulation -- Haptic Device for a Ventricular Shunt Insertion Simulator -- A Hip Surgery Simulator Based on Patient Specific Models Generated by Automatic Segmentation -- Semi-Automatic Segmentation and Tracking of CVH Data -- Tissue Engineering Templates Using Minimal Surfaces -- Rendering of Virtual Fixtures for MIS Using Generalized Sigmoid Functions -- Mobile in Vivo Biopsy and Camera Robot -- An Integrated System for Real-Time Image Guided Cardiac Catheter Ablation -- Stress Management Using UMTS Cellular Phones: A Controlled Trial -- Structure-Function Relationships in the Human Visual System Using DTI, fMRI and Visual Field Testing: Pre- and Post-Operative Assessments in Patients with Anterior Visual Pathway Compression -- Estimation of Skeletal Movement of Human Locomotion from Body Surface Shapes Using Dynamic Spatial Video Camera (DSVC) and 4D Human Model -- Validation of Open-Surgery VR Trainer -- Open Surgery in VR: Inguinal Hernia Repair According to Lichtenstein -- Pneumothorax Influenced 3D Lung Deformations -- Documentation and Teaching of Surgery with an Eye Movement Driven Head-Mounted Camera: See what the Surgeon Sees and Does -- A Simulation-Based Training System for Surgical Wound Debridement -- Achieving Proper Exposure in Surgical Simulation -- Structural Flexibility of Laparoscopic Instruments: Implication for the Design of Virtual Reality Simulators -- Selective Tessellation Algorithm for Modeling Interactions Between Surgical Instruments and Tissues -- Realistic Irrigation Visualization in a Surgical Wound Debridement Simulator -- Simulating Bending Behaviour of Thread and Needle -- Web-Based Viewer for Systematic Combination of Anatomy and Nomenclature -- Haptic Feedback for the GPU-Based Surgical Simulator.

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