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A Treatment Planning System for the Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP) based on 3D Slicer
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Published in The MIDAS Journal
This paper describes the software integration of a treatment planning system (TPS), based on the open-source 3D Slicer package, with the Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP).The TPS is designed to enable researchers to replicate their clinical [...]
Component-based software for dynamic configuration and control of computer assisted intervention systems
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Published in The MIDAS Journal
This paper presents the rationale for the use of a component-based architecture for computer-assisted intervention (CAI) systems, including the ability to reuse components and to easily develop distributed systems. We introduce three additional capabilities, [...]
The SIGN: A dynamic and extensible software framework for Image-Guided Therapy
Published in The Insight Journal
Published in The Insight Journal
The software requirements for computer-aided navigation tools in image-guided therapy are becoming increasingly complex as a result of new possibilities in imaging and tracking hardware, novel application areas and regulatory restrictions.
A new software [...]
The Surgical Assistant Workstation (SAW) in Minimally-Invasive Surgery and Microsurgery
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Published in The MIDAS Journal
The Surgical Assistant Workstation (SAW) provides a modular, open-source software framework to support rapid prototyping of computer-assisted surgery systems, especially those that benefit from enhanced 3D visualization and user interaction. The framework [...]
An Open-Source Hardware and Software Platform for Telesurgical Robotics Research
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Published in The MIDAS Journal
We present our work to develop a telerobotics research platform that provides complete access to all levels of control via open-source custom electronics and software. The electronics employs an FPGA to enable a centralized computation and distributed I/O [...]
Open Source Software in the Development and Testing of an Image-Guided Robot System
Published in The Insight Journal
Published in The Insight Journal
This paper describes the use of open source software in the development and testing of an image-guided robot system for small animal research, presented at MICCAI 2006. This system relied on a significant amount of open source software, including 3D [...]
MITK and 3DMed : An Integrated Platform Applicable for the Development of Computer Assisted Intervention Systems
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Published in The MIDAS Journal
This paper introduces an integrated 3D medical image
processing and analyzing software platform which is open interface
and freely available. The platform consists of the Medical Imaging
Toolkit (MITK) and the 3-Dimensional Medical Image Processing [...]
CustusX version 3 is an in-house application for research in image-guided therapy with a focus on intraoperative use and ultrasound imaging. It is built upon open source toolkits such as the Insight Toolkit (ITK), the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), Qt and [...]
A Lightweight and Portable Communication Framework for Multimodal Image-Guided Therapy
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Published in The MIDAS Journal
In today’s medicine a lot of research revolves around the combination of different imaging and tracking modalities to form a new system for Image-Guided Therapy. Such systems can help to overcome shortcomings of the individual techniques or create new kinds [...]
MUSiiC ToolKit 2.0: Bidirectional Real-time Software Framework for Advanced Interventional Ultrasound Research
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Ultrasound (US) imaging is a popular and convenient medical imaging modality thanks to its mobility, non-ionizing radiation, ease-of-use, and real-time acquisition. Conventional US imaging is frequently integrated with tracking systems and robotic systems in [...]
Development of open source software for computer-assisted intervention systems
Published in The Insight Journal
Published in The Insight Journal
We are developing open source software for computer assisted intervention systems. Our primary experience has been with medical
robots, but the concepts (and software) apply to many physical devices that interact with the real world.
The real-time [...]
A role-based component architecture for computer assisted interventions: illustration for electromagnetic tracking and robotized motion rejection in flexible endoscopy
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Published in The MIDAS Journal
This paper presents an original role-based software architecture facilitating the flexible composition, configuration and collaboration of separated components in the field of computer assisted interventions. Roles, which can be seen as methods dynamically [...]
Flexible architecture and modularity requirements for image guided cardiovascular surgeries
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Research and development of image guided surgery techniques requires software that provides a high degree of flexibility, with easy access to reliable functionality for common tasks. The goal of this paper is to highlight this claim in the context of image [...]
BioImage Suite: An integrated medical image analysis suite: An update
Published in The Insight Journal
Published in The Insight Journal
BioImage Suite is an NIH-supported medical image analysis software suite developed at Yale. It
leverages both the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and it includes many additional
algorithms for image analysis especially in the areas [...]
An Architecture Validation Toolset for Ensuring Patient Safety in an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications
Published in The Insight Journal
Published in The Insight Journal
As open source software projects gain acceptance in mission critical domains of a technology-enabled society, they must adapt their lightweight processes and tools to address the quality needs of these domains. One such domain is technology-supported [...]
IGSTK: A State Machine Architecture for an Open Source Software Toolkit for Image-Guided Surgery Applications
Published in The Insight Journal
Published in The Insight Journal
The Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) is an Open Source software project being developed under NIH/NIBIB funding. The toolkit will provide a common platform for implementing image-guided surgery applications and for fostering research in the field. The [...]
The Surgical Assistant Workstation (SAW) is a software development framework that can be used to
develop new applications in robot-assisted surgery with augmented visualization. Robot-assisted laparoscopic
surgery and micro-surgery as presented by the da [...]
Computer assisted intervention (CAI) systems require the integration of an increasing number of devices,
including medical monitors, sensors, tracking devices and robots. This complexity makes applications
harder to develop, more difficult to debug and the [...]
Unified framework for development, deployment and testing of image analysis algorithms
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Developing both graphical and command-line user interfaces for image analysis algorithms requires considerable effort. Generally developers provide limited to very rudimentary user interface controls to their users. These image analysis algorithms can only [...]
Integration of a Robotic Endoscope Holder with the Surgical Assistant Workstation Software Framework
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Published in The MIDAS Journal
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. [...]
The ARAMIS research platform is a telesurgical robotic system for minimally invasive surgery with focus on autonomous functionality. The original software architecture was a hierarchical one, based on the model-view-controller paradigm. To handle the growing [...]
At the Johns Hopkins University’s Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (ERC-CISST) laboratory, we have designed and developed a platformindependent C++ software package, called the nArray library, that provides [...]
In this document it is described the implementation of the flux driven automatic centerline extraction
algorithm proposed by Bouix et al. in 2004. This is based on a skeletonisation algorithm initially
proposed by Siddiqi et al. in 2002, using properties of [...]
Kinematics Based Safety Operation Mechanism for Robotic Surgery extending the JHU SAW Framework
Published in The MIDAS Journal
Published in The MIDAS Journal
As robotic surgery gains popularity [1, 2, 3], methods for improving situational awareness during tele-
operation have become an active area of research. Literature has attempted to incorporate haptic feedback
displays to enhance and improve user performance. [...]
