Man-Machine Interfaces in Computer Assisted Surgery

Man/machine Interaction in Computer Assisted Page Layout

Adaptive Man-machine Interfaces

In this project we aim to achieve two significant extensions of our recent work on developing a text-to-visualspeech (TTVS) system (Ezzat, 1998). The existing synthesis module may be trained to generate image sequences of a real human face synchronized to a text-to-speech system, starting from just a few real images of the person to be simulated. We proposed 1) to extend the system to use morph...

Computer-assisted surgery and computer-assisted telesurgery in otorhinolaryngology.

Surgical preparation is enhanced by the availability of computer-generated three-dimensional models that allow surgeons to explore the surgical field in various projections prior to an actual operation. In fact, with adequate computed tomography images, an entire operation can be simulated beforehand so that surgeons can plan the safest and most effective approach and be prepared to avoid or ov...

Adaptive Man-Machine Interfaces MIT9904-15

3. Assess the realism of the talking face. We plan to perform several psychophysical tests to evaluate the realism of our system. 4. Extend our approach using morphable model from TTVS to TTS. We plan to first study morphing of audio sequences. The system will take as input 2 audio sequences, and produce as output intermediate audio sequences that approximate natural exemplars lying between the...

Computer assisted spine surgery.

When inserting screws into a vertebral pedicle, the surgeon usually exposes the back part of the vertebra and uses his or her anatomic knowledge to align the drill in the proper direction. A slight error in direction may result in an important error in the position of the tip of the screw. This is done with no direct visibility of crucial structures (spinal cord, pleura, vessels). Statistical a...