Recommended reading before the workshop

Here are basic articles on SPRING and other simulation packages that we recommend for reading before the Surgical Simulation Workshop on August 28, 29, and 30, 2006 at Stanford University.

Core reading on surgical simulation

• Core SPRING paper: Spring: A General Framework for Collaborative, Real-time Surgical Simulation
• Heinrichs WL, Srivastava S, Montgomery K, and Dev P. The fundamental manipulations of surgery: A structured vocabulary for designing surgical curricula and simulators. Special Article; J Amer Assoc Gynecol Laparoscopy 2004, Vol. 11, No. 4, 450-456. (Abstract only at this time.)
• Satava RM, Cuschieri A, Hamdorf J; Metrics for Objective Assessment of Surgical Skills Workshop. Surg Endoscopy 2003 Feb;17(2):220-6.
• GiPSi: A Framework for Open Source/Open Architecture Software Development for Organ Level Surgical Simulation
• SOFA: Collaborative Development of an Open Framework for Medical Simulation
• VRASS: Virtual Reality Aided Surgical Simulation, Kyoto University

Additional reading

• A Typology of Simulators for Medical Education by Gary Meller MD, MBA, FACP
• H3D, Open Source Haptics. Note that a free registration is required.
• Project hydra--a new paradigm of internet-based surgical simulation (abstract)
• A surgical and fine-motor skills trainer for everyone? Touch and force-feedback in a virtual reality environment for surgical training (abstract)
• Generalized Interactions Using Virtual Tools within the Spring Framework: Cutting
• Generalized Interactions Using Virtual Tools within the Spring Framework: Probing, Piercing, Cauterizing and Ablating
• A Virtual Environment for Simulated Rat Dissection: A Case Study of Visualization for Astronaut Training

You may also wish to browse the National Bicomputation Center's list of papers.

And also see publication list of M. Cenk Cavusoglu, PhD at Case Western Reserve University.

Last updated 28-June-2006