Methods for segmentation of skull infiltrated tumors in Computed Tomography (CT) images using Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit ITK (www.itk.org) are presented. Pipelines of filters and algorithms from ITK are validated on the basis of [...]

We have integrated the Philips Research robot arm with the Johns Hopkins cisst library, an open-source platform for computer assisted surgical intervention, for assistance during minimally invasive cardiac surgery using image-based steering of an endoscope. [...]