5 papers
Gamification of Immersive Cervical Rehabilitation Exercises in VR: An Exploratory Study on Chin Tuck and Range of Motion Exercises
Haitham Abdelsalam, Chanelle Montpetit, Arash Harirpoush +2
Chronic neck pain is a prevalent condition that affects millions of individuals worldwide, causing significant individual suffering and socioeconomic burdens. Although exercise reh…
TextSAM-EUS: Text Prompt Learning for SAM to Accurately Segment Pancreatic Tumor in Endoscopic Ultrasound
Pascal Spiegler, Taha Koleilat, Arash Harirpoush +4
Pancreatic cancer carries a poor prognosis and relies on endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) for targeted biopsy and radiotherapy. However, the speckle noise, low contrast, and unintuitive…
CABLD: Contrast-Agnostic Brain Landmark Detection with Consistency-Based Regularization
Soorena Salari, Arash Harirpoush, Hassan Rivaz +1
Anatomical landmark detection in medical images is essential for various clinical and research applications, including disease diagnosis and surgical planning. However, manual land…
Towards user-centered interactive medical image segmentation in VR with an assistive AI agent
Pascal Spiegler, Arash Harirpoush, Yiming Xiao
Crucial in disease analysis and surgical planning, manual segmentation of volumetric medical scans (e.g. MRI, CT) is laborious, error-prone, and challenging to master, while fully…
Virtual Reality-Based Preoperative Planning for Optimized Trocar Placement in Thoracic Surgery: A Preliminary Study
Arash Harirpoush, George Rakovich, Marta Kersten-Oertel +1
Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is a minimally invasive approach for treating early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer. Optimal trocar placement during VATS ensures comprehens…