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SUMMARY:Computer Assisted Interventions: Challenges in design\, developmen
 t\, validation and deployment of novel techniques - Nassir Navab\, Compute
 r Aided Medical Procedures &amp\; Augmented Reality
DTSTART:20120413T100000Z
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:Augmented and Virtual Reality visualization techniques are fin
 ally finding their ways into many operative suites. As novel intra-operati
 ve\, multi-modality imaging techniques provide the surgical crew with rich
  co-registered in-situ information\, their integration\, validation and de
 ployment become active subjects of research for the Computer Assisted Inte
 rventions (CAI) community. In this talk I will first present some of our l
 atest results as exemplary cases. I will then try to talk about the challe
 nges the CAI community faces before such techniques get adopted by provide
 rs and turn into commodity in routine procedures.\n\nIn particular\, I wil
 l trace the Freehand SPECT and Camera Augmented Mobile C-arm (CAMC) from t
 he early development of research ideas within our multi-disciplinary resea
 rch laboratories to their deployment in different surgical suites. I first
  focus on the theoretical concepts of navigated nuclear probe imaging with
 in operating room. The multi-disciplinary nature of this research guides u
 s through different aspects of medical physics\, computer assisted surgery
  and advanced imaging and visualization. I will then show how the "real wo
 rld laboratory" at our university hospital demonstrates its efficiency thr
 ough the smooth path it paves for bringing the CAMC into the surgical thea
 tre. I will finally try to discuss some of the interesting and exciting ch
 allenges that the CAI community needs to face in the upcoming years.
LOCATION:Small lecture theatre\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomson Av
 enue (Off Madingley Road)\, Cambridge
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