Title Page -- Preface -- Surgery, Virtual Reality, and the Future -- The Patient Comes First -- NextMed/MMVR20 Proceedings Editors -- NextMed/MMVR20 Organizing Committee -- Contents -- Pattern Cutting and Ligating Loop Simulation in Virtual Basic Laparoscopic Skill Trainer (VBLaST copyright) -- Reducing Clinical Trial Costs by Detecting and Measuring the Placebo Effect and Treatment Effect Using Brain Imaging -- Effects on Performance of Individual Versus Dyadic Practice During an Avatar-Based Three-Dimensional Virtual Home Safety Simulation -- VCath: A Tablet-Based Neurosurgery Training Tool -- Development and Validation of VBLaST-PT copyright: A Virtual Peg Transfer Simulator -- A Modified Multilevel Scheme for Internal and External Constraints in Virtual Environments -- Automated Human Avatar Synthesis for Obesity Control Using Low-Cost Depth Cameras -- Requirements Analysis of a 5 Degree of Freedom Haptic Simulator for Orthopedic Trauma Surgery -- Co-Located Haptic and 3D Graphic Interface for Medical Simulations -- A Demonstration of the Storz C-CAM in Endoscopic Imagery Projection for Far Forward Battlefield Telemetric Support and Training -- Using the Intubating Laryngeal Tube in a Manikin - User Evaluation of a New Airway Device -- Towards Interactive Narrative Medicine -- Learning Skill-Defining Latent Space in Video-Based Analysis of Surgical Expertise - A Multi-Stream Fusion Approach -- The Use of Web-Based Learning for Simulation-Based Education and Training of Central Venous Catheterization in Novice Learners -- Objective Performance Measures Using Motion Sensors on an Endoscopic Tool for Evaluating Skills in Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) -- Optimized Marker for Template-Guided Intraoral Surgery -- Use of Simulation to Understand the Effects of Task Complexity and Time Away on Clinical Confidence.

Face Validity of VIS-Ed: A Visualization Program for Teaching Medical Students and Residents the Biomechanics of Cervical Spine Trauma -- The Use of Rotational Optical Encoders for Dial Sensing in the Virtual Translumenal Endoscopic Surgical Trainer (VTEST TM) -- The Development of a Haptic Interface for the Virtual Translumenal Endoscopic Surgical Trainer (VTEST TM) -- Microsoft Kinect Based Head Tracking for Life Size Collaborative Surgical Simulation Environments (LS-CollaSSLE) -- Design and Development of a Novel Thoracoscopic Tracheoesophageal Fistula Repair Simulator -- Using Simulation to Design Control Strategies for Robotic No-Scar Surgery -- Examination of Muscle Effort and Fatigue During Virtual and Actual Laparoscopic Surgical Skills Practice -- The Effect of Haptic Degrees of Freedom on Task Performance in Virtual Surgical Environments -- Optimized Image-Based Soft Tissue Deformation Algorithms for Visualization of Haptic Needle Insertion -- From Mobile Mental Health to Mobile Wellbeing: Opportunities and Challenges -- In Vivo Quantification of Clot Formation in Extracorporeal Circuits -- User-State Sensing for Virtual Health Agents and TeleHealth Applications -- Kinect-Based Posture Tracking for Correcting Positions During Exercise -- A Portable Immersive Surgery Training System Using RGB-D Sensors -- Performance Optimization of Web-Based Medical Simulation -- Liver Pathology Simulation: Algorithm for Haptic Rendering and Force Maps for Palpation Assessment -- Deformation-Based Augmented Reality for Hepatic Surgery -- Surgical Novices Randomized to Train in Two Video Games Become More Motivated During Training in MIST-VR and GI Mentor II Than Students with No Video Game Training -- The Aspherical Human Hip: Implication for Early Osteoarthritis -- 3D Measuring Tool for Estimating Femoroacetabular Impingement.

MicroSim - A Microsurgical Training Simulator -- Pupil Response to Precision in Surgical Task Execution -- Virtual Exploration and Comparison of Linear Mastoid Drilling Trajectories with True-Color Volume Rendering and the Visible Ear Dataset -- Web-Based Learning and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning for Psychomotor Skill Acquisition: Perspectives of Medical Undergraduate Students -- Tool-Tissue Force Estimation in Laparoscopic Surgery Using Geometric Features -- Development of a Novel Portable Multi-Channel Near Infrared Spectroscopy System -- Stereoscopic Vision-Based Robotic Manipulator Extraction Method for Enhanced Soft Tissue Reconstruction -- Rupture Progression Model of Stress Integration for Virtual Reality Ablation -- Upper Extremity Reachable Workspace Evaluation with Kinect -- Towards the Development of a Haptic Simulator of Surgical Gestures in Orthopaedic Spine Surgery -- Toward Modeling of Radio-Frequency Ablation Lesions for Image-Guided Left Atrial Fibrillation Therapy: Model Formulation and Preliminary Evaluation -- A Set of Mixed-Elements Patterns for Domain Boundary Approximation in Hexahedral Meshes -- A Haptic Simulator to Increase Laparoscopic Force Application Sensitivity -- Perceptions of the Roles of Social Networking in Simulation Augmented Medical Education and Training -- A Spatial Augmented Reality Rehab System for Post-Stroke Hand Rehabilitation -- Simulation of the Aortic Valve Deformation by Considering Blood Flow Reflection -- Hierarchical Task Analysis of Hybrid Rigid Scope Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) Cholecystectomy Procedures -- Airway Management in Unusual Environments -- Kinematic Analysis of Motor Performance in Robot-Assisted Surgery: A Preliminary Study -- Architecture of an Automated Coaching System for Elderly Population.

Dynamic Measuring of Physical Properties for Developing a Sophisticated Preoperative Surgical Simulator: How Much Reaction Force Should a Surgical Simulator Represent to the Surgeon? -- An Interactive Program to Conceptualize the Anatomy of the Internal Brainstem in 3D -- Spatial Ability and Training in Virtual Neuroanatomy -- A Directed Particle System for Optimised Visualization of Blood Flow in Complex Networks -- Image-Driven Haptic Simulation of Arthroscopic Surgery -- Intubation Simulation with a Cross-Sectional Visual Guidance -- Virtual Reality Aided Training of Combined Arm and Leg Movements of Children with CP -- From Body Dissatisfaction to Obesity: How Virtual Reality May Improve Obesity Prevention and Treatment in Adolescents -- Surgical Navigation with a Head-Mounted Tracking System and Display -- Simplifying Touch Data from Tri-Axial Sensors Using a New Data Visualization Tool -- Enhancing Medical Device Training with Hybrid Physical-Virtual Simulators: Smart Peripherals for Virtual Devices -- Multi-Scale, Multi-Modal Image Integration for Image-Guided Clinical Interventions in the Head and Neck Anatomy -- Visualization of Three-Dimensional Ultra-High Resolution OCT in Virtual Reality -- Brain Virtual Dissection and White Matter 3D Visualization -- Echo Simulator with Novel Training and Competency Testing Tools -- Z-DOC: A Serious Game for Z-Plasty Procedure Training -- Low-Cost Quantitative Tool-Tissue Applied Pressure Indication Method for Surgical Training and Assessment in Reality-Based Physical Models -- Ambidexterity in Laparoscopic Surgical Skills Training -- Gradient-Free Visualization with Multiple Light Approximations -- Formulation of Wire Control Mechanism for Surgical Robot to Create Virtual Reality Environment Aimed at Conducting Surgery Inside the Body.

Laparoscopic Surgery Simulator Using First Person View and Guidance Force -- Regulated Cellular Exposure to Non-Thermal Plasma Allows Preferentially Directed Apoptosis in Acute Monocytic Leukemia Cells -- Characterization of an Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet and Its Applications for Disinfection and Cancer Treatment -- 3D Liver Volume Reconstructed for Palpation Training -- Identifying Eye Gaze Mismatch During Laparoscopic Surgery -- Virtual Reality Environment Assisting Post Stroke Hand Rehabilitation: Case Report -- Video Game Interfaces for Interactive Lower and Upper Member Therapy -- Endotracheal Intubation with a Traditional Videolaryngoscope Blade Versus an Integrated Suction Blade in a Hemorrhagic Airway Cadaver Model -- TPM: Cloud-Based Tele-PTSD Monitor Using Multi-Dimensional Information -- mHealth Application for Upper Extremity Range of Motion and Reachable Workspace -- Subject Index -- Author Index.