Computer-Integrated Surgery (600.445 )
Fall 2007 Schedule

Class meets 1:00-2:15 in Shaffer 300

Subject to change

 

Date

Subject

References

 Homework Handout Homework Due

9/6

Organizational information;
Overview of computer-integrated interventional medicine

   Handout material; CIS Book Intro + Chapter 1    

9/7

 
Overview continued

CIS Book Chapters 5, 20, 22,  50

    

9/13

 Overview concluded   HW#1  

9/14

Surgical CAD/CAM case Studies

CIS Chapters 27-29; videotapes
Peter Kazanzides Presentation on Robodoc

Lecture on computer-assisted joint surgery by Dr. Eric Stindel

 

9/20

 Surgical Navigation Systems;  Localizers   HW#2  

9/21

 Mathematical methods for CIS Introduction to Coordinate Transformations -- lecture by Gabor Fichtinger

SECTION/TA Session

Online links in resources page

    

9/28

 Mathematical methods for CIS HW#1

9/29

Guest lecture (Dr. Clint Baird, Neurosurgery)
(Dr. Taylor at columbia University)
 
10/4

Mathematical methods for CIS

 

 HW#3  

10/5

 Calibration (pdf, ppt);  

PA#1 (also PA#2)
PA #1&2 Scenario
Data for PA #1 & 2

 HW#2

10/11

 Least Squares (pdf,ppt); Interpolation (pdf, ppt), Rigid 3D to 3D Registration      

10/12

Practical aspects of CIS programming
Steady Hand Eye Microsurgery
Q&A

  

PA#2
10/18 Segmentation & Modelling (pdf) CIS Book pp. 3-75 (esp. Ch. 4)   HW#3
10/19 Segmentation & Modeling    
10/25 Registration  (Video)   CIS Book Chapters 5 & 7   PA#1
10/26 Registration   (Video) Additional notes on how to find point pairs, spatial data structures, etc. 

Active Appearances

 

    

11/1

 Active appearances; Deformable registration (Video)   Registration Notes

 

PA#3-4
Data for PA#3-5

  

11/2

 Registration; Model Simplification  (Video)
 		 Superfaces (Kalvin)
Fat Triangles (Gueziec)		   PA#2 (due 11/5)
11/8 Model Simplification (Video)  

PA#5
HW#4

  
11/9 Model Simplification (Video)    
11/15 Craniofacial Surgery  (Video) including Skull Averaging     PA#3
11/16 Guest Lecture: John Carrino - Image-guided therapy

Dr. Corrino's Talk
Greg Fischer Image Overlay Talk

    

11/22-25

 THANKSGIVING      
11/29 Guest lecture by Emad Boctor (Dr Taylor in Singapore)      

11/30

Guest lecture: Todd McNutt on Rad. Therapy
(Dr. Taylor in Singapore)

   PA#4

12/6

Regulatory Issues; Safety Case Study
Go over HW#4

Nancy Leveson and Clark Turner, “The Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents”, Computer, 26, 7 (July 1993) pp 18-41

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

   HW#4

12/7

 Guest lecture: Erci Ford on Rad. Therapy  Handout material    
12/14 Reading Period/ exams      

12/19

 

 

   PA#5
         
         
         
         

Other material & lectures from earlier years