Computer-Integrated Surgery (600.445 )
Fall 2010 Schedule

Class meets 1:30-2:45 in CSEB B17

Subject to change: Still in progress!!

 

Date

Subject

References

 Homework Handout Homework Due
8/31

 

  Handout material; CIS Book Intro + Chapter 1    

9/2

 Introductory lecture continued

 

    

9/7
  • Surgical CAD/CAM Case Study on Robotic Total Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery

CIS Book Chapters 27-29

Videos:

Earlier lectures:

    

9/9

   

9/14

    

9/16

 Hand out HW#1  

9/21

 Guest lecture on thoracic surgery from
Marc Sussman, MD (Dr. Taylor in Beijing)

 

    
9/23 Guest lecture on radiation therapy
from Todd McNutt, PhD (Dr. Taylor in Beijing)

 

  

9/29

    

 

10/1

   Hand out HW#2

 

10/5

    

HW#1 Due

10/7

 

  

10/12

 No class  

 

 HW#2 Due
10/14
  • Complete interpolation and calibration
  • Start Segmentation & Modelling (pdf)
   Hand out HW#3  
10/19 Segmentation & Modelling (pdf) CIS Book pp. 3-75 (esp. Ch. 4)   PA#1 Due
10/21 Segmentation & Modeling      
10/26

Registration 

 CIS Book Chapters 5 & 7   HW#3 Due

10/28

 Registration   Additional notes on how to find point pairs, spatial data structures, etc. 

 
  • Hand out PA#3-4
  • Data files for PA#3-5
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    11/2

    		 Registration

     

    		 
    11/4 Guest Lecture on neurosurgery from Gary Gallia, MD
    (Dr. Taylor out of town)    		  

    PA#2 Due
    (Note NEW PA1-2 DATA)
    11/9 Deformable Registration; Active appearances; Atlas Construction & Validation    
    11/11

    Finish up registration; additional topic TBD

    		      
    11/16 Craniofacial Surgery  including Skull Averaging   PA#3 Due
    11/18

    Conclude Craniofacial Surgery; discuss PA5

    Model Simplification -- if time

    		      
    11/23

    Model simplification;

    Return PA1-3; Discuss HW#4

    David Luebke; A Developer’s Survey of Polygonal Simplification Algorithms; IEEE Computer Graphics and Application, May 2001

    Level-of-detail web site

    Superfaces (Kalvin)
    Fat Triangles (Gueziec)

    		   HW#4 Due

    11/25

    		 THANKSGIVING      

    11/30

    		 Constrained Control and Virtual Fixtures      

    12/2

    		 Regulatory Issues; Safety Case Study

    Nancy Levenson and Clark Turner, "The Investigation of the Therac 25 Accidents", Computer 26(7) pp18-41

    See also Nancy Leveson's home page for more on software related safety. The paper is updated as an appendix in her book.

    		   PA#4 Due
    12/10 Final exam date     PA#5 Due

     

     

     

    		    
             
             
             
             

    Other material & lectures from earlier years