Table of Contents:
“…Dynamic generation of surgery specific simulators - a feasibility study -- Haptic laparoscopic skills trainer with practical user evaluation metrics -- Desktop and conference room VR for physicians -- A biologically derived approach to tissue modeling -- Grid enabled remote visualization of medical datasets -- Surface scanning soft tissues -- Validation of a bovine rectal palpation simulator for training veterinary students -- Predictive biosimulation and virtual patients in pharmaceutical R & D -- Simulating surgical incisions without polygon subdivision -- 3D real-time FEM based guide wire simulator with force feedback -- Determining the efficacy of an immersive trainer for arthroscopy skills -- Teaching intravenous cannulation to medical students: comparative analysis of two simulators and two traditional educational approaches -- Validation of SimPL - a simulator for diagnostic peritoneal lavage training -- Challenges in presenting high dimensional data to aid in triage in the DARPA virtual soldier project -- A web-based remote collaborative system for visualization and assessment of semi-automatic diagnosis of liver cancer from CT images --…”