Computer Assisted Surgery

Sarah Gibson
Senior Research Scientist
MERL

Friday, February 5, 1999
11 a.m.
Fuller Labs 311

The goal of computer assisted surgery is to provide computer systems for training, pre-surgical planning and intra-operative guidance. Computer assisted surgery require real-time performance, physically realistic modeling, and high quality visual and haptic rendering. These demanding requirements push the limits of current computer technologies, providing challenges in hardware, software systems and algorithm development. In this talk I will discuss a collaborative project to develop a system for simulating arthroscopic knee surgery. In particular, I will focus on the use of volumetric models for physics-based modeling, visualization, and haptics.

Dr. Sarah Gibson received a B.Eng. in Mathematics and Engineering at Queen's University, Canada, in 1985, an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 1990. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Neuman Biomechanics Lab at MIT from 1991-1992, a member of the research faculty at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University from 1992-1993, and is currently a Senior Research Scientist at MERL- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory. Dr. Gibson's interests lie in volume graphics and medical applications, in the areas of volume visualization, physics-based modeling, surgical simulation, and image segmentation.

Host

Matthew Ward

Colloquium Coordinator

Carolina Ruiz

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