Information processing in computer-assisted interventions: 5th international conference, 2014

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Information processing is an increasingly important tool for surgical interventions. In computer-assisted surgery and interventional radiology, computer systems present valuable information during procedures which is used to help clinical decision-making at the point of treatment. With the paradigm shift towards minimally invasive surgery, where the surgeon or interventionalist has an inherently restricted view of the operating field, this information has a significant influence on how procedures are performed. In fact, surgical instrumentation and technology is increasing in complexity in order to reduce access trauma while enhancing surgical precision, and as a result, information processing also has a key role in understanding and optimizing interventional training practices, operating workflow, and ergonomics. Bridging the flow of information and the possibilities for inference between training, diagnosis, intervention, and patient follow-up, is driven by processing, synthesis, and deduction from the wealth of sensing and imaging technologies that are now driving modern treatment options. …