Year 8 Nuggets

• Career Development Program for ERC students
• A Hybrid Three-dimensional Reconstruction Method from Limited X-rays
• MRI-Guided Needle Placement with Augmented Reality Guidance
• Open Source Software Libraries for Computer Integrated Surgery
• Real-time Quality Control in Ultrasound Navigation
• ERC CISST Sponsored Robotic System Challenge
• Automated Recognition and Quality Assessment of Surgical Techniques
• Women In Science and Engineering (WISE): A Program for Mentoring High School Girls in Research

Year 9 Nuggets

• Bio-sensors for spine surgery (Class Project)
• Intra-operative dosimetry in prostate brachytherapy
• High resolution real-time elastography
• Haptic feedback for robot-assisted surgery
• Learning Nugget
• Targeted Prostate Biopsy Using Mathematical Optimization
• Custom VLSI Motor Controller
• Infrastructure Nugget: NaviTrack – A configurable middleware library for medical device interaction
• Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at the Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (CISST)
• Surgical Assistant Workstation for Teleoperate Surgical Robots (SAWTSR)

Year 10 Nuggets

• ASSIST- Automated System for Surgical Instrument and Sponge Tracking
• Hybrid Tomographic Reconstructions from Prior Models and a Limited Number of Projection Images
• CISST ERC ICEE: Collaboration with the Technical University of Munich
• MRI-Guided Transrectal Prostate Intervention System
• Needle Steering
• The Perk Station: Percutaneous Intervention Training Suite