Motion Planning in Medicine: Optimization and Simulation Algorithms for Image-Guided Procedures - Alterovitz, Ron.; Goldberg, Ken.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Physically-Based Simulation of Soft Tissue Deformations -- Motion Planning in Deformable Soft Tissue with Applications to Needle Insertion -- Motion Planning in Deformable Soft Tissue with Obstacles with Applications to Needle Steering -- Motion Planning for Curvature-Constrained Mobile Robots with Applications to Needle Steering -- The Stochastic Motion Roadmap: A Sampling-Based Framework for Planning with Motion Uncertainty -- Motion Planning for Radiation Sources during High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy -- Conclusion.
Keywords: Control engineering; Robotics; Mechatronics; Artificial intelligence; System theory; Biomedical engineering; Optical data processing; Control and Systems Theory; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Artificial Intelligence; Systems Theory, Control; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics