CHARLES TRUAX, The mechanics of surgery, comprising detailed descriptions, illustrations and lists ofinstruments, appliances andfurniture necessary in modern surgical art (1899), with an Introduction by James M. Edmonson, Norman Surgery Series, No. 1, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1988, 8vo, pp. xliii, 1024, illus., $145.00. This reprinted reference book is much more than Chicago-based Trua...

Endoscopic surgery routinely produces video data. Automated understanding of these data has applications both online (visual servoing for telemanipulation) and offline (procedure analysis, annotation and content-based retrieval). As a step towards such applications, a method for tracking surgical instruments in endoscopic video without modifications to instruments or endoscopic equipment is des...

In this paper we propose a real-time solution to localize the surgical instruments in an eye surgery simulator, EyeSi. The hardware consists of three synchronized cameras that capture the movements of the instruments, and an FPGA card for grabbing and preprocessing the images. The surgical instruments are localized using the method of Hough transform combined with the technique of stereo vision...

results and conclusion: lasers are useful for soft tissue surgery in modern dentistry, especially in relation to pediatric patients due to the rapid and regular wound healing without sutures. introduction: epulis granulomatosa is a lesion which grows from an extraction socket. it can be misdiagnosed with lesions of the same clinical appearance such as: foreign body or pyogenic granuloma, or as ...

A family of passive markers is presented by which the position and orientation of a surgical instrument can be computed from its ultrasound image using simple image processing. These markers address the problem of imaging instruments and tissue simultaneously in ultrasound-guided interventions. Marker-based estimates of instrument location can be used in augmented reality displays or for image-...