Thomas Kerwin

TL;DR: Comparison of virtually drilled bones with expert examples on a voxel level provides sufficient information to score them and provide several specific quality metrics, and the reliability metrics for the multi-grade scoring system are better in some cases than previously reported binary classification metrics.

TL;DR: A mastoidectomy simulator that offers a training environment for medical residents as a complement to using a cadaver, and incorporates a planar computational fluid dynamics simulation into the three-dimensional rendering to effect realistic blood diffusion.

TL;DR: The role of multisensory feedback in the perception of surface roughness was investigated, specifically focusing on whether the threshold for distinguishing the roughness of two virtual surfaces was different under visual + haptic conditions, as compared to visual-only or haptic-only conditions.

TL;DR: An atlas-based approach using a deformable registration of a Gaussian-smoothed temporal bone image and refinements using surface landmarks was successful in segmenting surface structures of temporal bone anatomy for use in pre-surgical planning and training.