International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

2.5-mm articulated endoluminal forceps using a compliant mechanism

Keisuke Osawa, D. S. V. Bandara, Ryu Nakadate, Yoshihiro Nagao, Tomohiko Akahoshi, Masatoshi Eto, Jumpei Arata

Improving situation recognition using endoscopic videos and navigation information for endoscopic sinus surgery

Kazuya Kawamura, Ryu Ebata, Ryoichi Nakamura, Nobuyoshi Otori

A pilot study on an electromagnetic tracking system using tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) sensors applicable to a 4F catheter (1.4 mm in diameter)

Rina Nagano, Kazuaki Hara, Etsuko Kobayashi, Takashi Ohya, Ichiro Sakuma

Design and kinematics of a tube-shaped multidirectional bending robotic device using slackened SMA wires for transurethral ureterolithotripsy

Wenrui Liu, Noriko Tsuruoka, Yoshikatsu Tanahashi, Yoichi Haga

Magnetic resonance image segmentation of the compressed spinal cord in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy using convolutional neural networks

Kyohei Nozawa, Satoshi Maki, Takeo Furuya, Sho Okimatsu, Takaki Inoue, Atsushi Yunde, Masataka Miura, Yuki Shiratani, Yasuhiro Shiga, Kazuhide Inage, Yawara Eguchi, Seiji Ohtori, Sumihisa Orita

An analysis of the correlation between the efficacy of training using a high-fidelity disease-specific simulator and the clinical outcomes of laparoscopic surgery for congenital biliary dilatation in pediatric patients

Koji Yamada, Mitsuru Muto, Masakazu Murakami, Shun Onishi, Koshiro Sugita, Keisuke Yano, Toshio Harumatsu, Nanako Nishida, Ayaka Nagano, Masato Kawano, Waka Yamada, Makoto Matsukubo, Takafumi Kawano, Tatsuru Kaji, Satoshi Ieiri

Database-driven patient-specific registration error compensation method for image-guided laparoscopic surgery

Yuichiro Hayashi, Kazunari Misawa, Kensaku Mori

Artificial intelligence-based volumetric analysis of muscle atrophy and fatty degeneration in patients with hip osteoarthritis and its correlation with health-related quality of life

Makoto Iwasa, Masaki Takao, Mazen Soufi, Keisuke Uemura, Yoshito Otake, Hidetoshi Hamada, Yoshinobu Sato, Nobuhiko Sugano, Seiji Okada

Rotational-motion measurement of the sacroiliac joint using upright MRI scanning and intensity-based registration: is there a sex difference?

Tetsuro Tani, Masaki Takao, Mazen Soufi, Yoshito Otake, Norio Fukuda, Hidetoshi Hamada, Keisuke Uemura, Yoshinobu Sato, Nobuhiko Sugano

The user experience design of a novel microscope within SurgiSim, a virtual reality surgical simulator

Madeleine de Lotbiniere-Bassett, Arthur Volpato Batista, Carolyn Lai, Trishia El Chemaly, Joseph Dort, Nikolas Blevins, Justin Lui

Virtual surgical planning and 3D printing in pediatric musculoskeletal oncological resections: a proof-of-concept description

Jayanthi Parthasarathy, Brandon Jonard, Mitchell Rees, Bhavani Selvaraj, Thomas Scharschmidt

The colonoscopic vacuum model–simulating biomechanical restrictions to provide a realistic colonoscopy training environment

Jana Steger, Christina Kwade, Maximilian Berlet, Roman Krumpholz, Stefanie Ficht, Dirk Wilhelm, Petra Mela

Temporally guided articulated hand pose tracking in surgical videos

Nathan Louis, Luowei Zhou, Steven J. Yule, Roger D. Dias, Milisa Manojlovich, Francis D. Pagani, Donald S. Likosky, Jason J. Corso

Interactive visual exploration of surgical process data

Benedikt Mayer, Monique Meuschke, Jimmy Chen, Beat P. Müller-Stich, Martin Wagner, Bernhard Preim, Sandy Engelhardt

Temporal-based Swin Transformer network for workflow recognition of surgical video

Xiaoying Pan, Xuanrong Gao, Hongyu Wang, Wuxia Zhang, Yuanzhen Mu, Xianli He

Double U-Net CycleGAN for 3D MR to CT image synthesis

Bin Sun, Shuangfu Jia, Xiling Jiang, Fucang Jia

CASSIA (cardiology software suite for image analysis): a potential new tool for the evaluation of [18F]FDG PET/CT in the setting of infective endocarditis

David Palomino-Fernández, Adolfo Gómez-Grande, Mirene Fernández-Igarza, Patrick Pilkington, Alexander P. Seiffert, Héctor Bueno, Enrique J. Gómez, Patricia Sánchez-González

Karawun: a software package for assisting evaluation of advances in multimodal imaging for neurosurgical planning and intraoperative neuronavigation

Richard Beare, Bonnie Alexander, Aaron Warren, Michael Kean, Marc Seal, Alison Wray, Wirginia Maixner, Joseph Yuan-Mou Yang

Performance improvement in multi-label thoracic abnormality classification of chest X-rays with noisy labels

Mingyan Yang, Hisashi Tanaka, Takayuki Ishida

Acknowledgement to reviewers