Computer-based surgical simulation promises to provide a broader scope of clinical training through the introduction of anatomic variation, simulation of untoward events, and collection of performance data. We present a haptically-enabled surgical simulator for the most common techniques in diagnostic and operative hysteroscopycervical dilation, endometrial resection and ablation, and lesion ex...

Citation for published item: Mellows, Andrew and Barnett, Ross and Dal en, Love and Sandoval-Castellanos, Edson and Linderholm, Anna and McGovern, Thomas H. and Church, Mike J. and Larson, Greger (2012) 'The impact of past climate change on genetic variation and population connectivity in the Icelandic arctic fox.', Proceedings of the Royal Society series B : biological sciences., 279 (1747). p...

This paper describes experiments of Internet modeling and of Internet-based teleoperation aimed at developing control laws to overcome the variable time-delay and data losses typical of Internet communication. From a control perspective, Internet is shown to be characterized by mean and jitter of the data packets delay, and by packet losses. Furthermore, these parameters depend on the number of...

results genotype frequencies of g/a in fertile and infertile men were significantly different (χ2 = 4.16, df = 1, p = 0.041). genotype frequencies of g/g and a/ain fertile and infertile men were not significantly different (χ2 = 3.32, df = 1, p = 0.068 and χ2 = 0.521, df = 1, p = 0.47, respectively). the risk of infertility was 1.43 folds higher in individuals with the a/a genotype compared to ...

Against to the different regions of membership functions indicated image in the traditional image segmentation variational model, resulting segmentation is not clear, de-noising effect is not obvious problems, this paper proposes multi-target model for image segmentation and the splitting algorithm. The model uses a sparse regularization method to maintain the boundaries of segmented regions, t...

Stand-alone and networked surgical simulators based on virtual reality have been proposed as a means to train surgeons in specific surgical skills with or without expert guidance and supervision. However, a surgical operation usually involves a group of medical practitioners who cooperate as team members. To this end, CNVSS have been proposed for the collaborative training of surgical procedure...

Remote sensing images have been used in many fields, such as urban planning, military, and environment monitoring, but corruption by stripe noise limits its subsequent applications. Most existing stripe noise removal (destriping) methods aim to directly estimate the clear images from the stripe images without considering the intrinsic properties of stripe noise, which causes the image structure...

Process capability analysis is an important aspect of quality control. Various process capability indices are proposed when the distribution is normal. For non-normal cases, percentile and yield-based indices have been introduced. These two methods use partial features of a process distribution, such as key percentiles and the proportion of non-conforming (PNC) to estimate the process capabilit...