Ivo Wolf

TL;DR: Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy can benefit from surgical computer assistance with preoperative planning, intraoperative imaging, and real time guidance integrated in a single system, suitable for testing in an intraoperative environment with human patients undergoing LPN.

TL;DR: It was showed that annular enlargement in patients with IMR affects the different annular regions to the same extent and an ideal surgical repair of IMR should be individually tailored after quantitative assessment measurement of geometry and function of each single component of the mitral valve complex.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a method and a system for assisting the targeting of a target with an elongate instrument, wherein the instrument is to be inserted into a living object's body part along a predetermined trajectory extending between an entry point of said instrument into said body part and a target point associated with said target.

TL;DR: It was found that 3D ultrasound probes do distort electromagnetic sensors more than 2D probes do, and the interference of ultrasound probes and electromagnetic sensors have to be checked carefully.

TL;DR: In this article, an extension of cycle-consistent GANs, named tempCycleGAN, is proposed to improve temporal consistency for endoscopic reconstructive mitral valve procedures, which shows highly realistic results with regard to replacement of the silicone appearance of the phantom valve by intraoperative tissue texture, while keeping crucial features in the scene, such as instruments, sutures and prostheses.