Chapter 1 Development and Procedural Evaluation of Immersive Medical Simulation Environments

Chapter 2 Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions

Chapter 3 Intra-operative Identification of the Subthalamic Nucleus Motor Zone Using Goniometers

Chapter 5 Ultrasound-Based Image Guidance for Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: Initial in-vivo Results

Chapter 6 Augmentation of Paramedian 3D Ultrasound Images of the Spine

Chapter 7 3D Segmentation of Curved Needles Using Doppler Ultrasound and Vibration

Chapter 8 Mobile EM Field Generator for Ultrasound Guided Navigated Needle Insertions

Chapter 9 First Flexible Robotic Intra-operative Nuclear Imaging for Image-Guided Surgery

Chapter 10 Robust Real-Time Image-Guided Endoscopy: A New Discriminative Structural Similarity Measure for Video to Volume Registration

Chapter 11 Declustering n-Connected Components for Segmentation of Iodine Implants in C-Arm Fluoroscopy Images