The Surgical Instrument Maker

Benjamin Martin. Author, instrument-maker, and `country showman'

Surgical instrument guidance using synthesized anatomical structures

We present a new method of intraoperative, image-based surgical instrument guidance. The method has the potential to significantly improve visualization of intraoperative procedures that currently depend on fluoroscopic images for navigation. 3D information from preoperative computed tomography (CT) is fused with images of the instrument taken intraoperatively. Our approach employs synthesized ...

The Maker Fables

This Science Fiction Prototype explores the idea that the current interest in maker space activities could continue to grow to the point where it causes a sea change in the manufacturing industry as it shifts from centralised production in factories, to a distributed production in people’s communities or homes. This move is a natural extension of a number of research trends, such as the increas...

The adaptive decision maker

Melody Maker The Music

In this paper we describe how we have developed an application that is capable of evolving melodies with some human help to guide it. We have developed this system using evolutionary algorithms and interactive evolution. The user can use the application to, first, evolve short blocks of notes, and second, to combine these blocks into longer melodies using more evolutionary techniques. The resul...