In this work a software framework for the virtual surgical simulation is presented. Our environment ESQUI (The acronym comes from the Spanish "Entorno para Simulacion QUIrurgica", i.e. Framework for Surgical Simulation) is based on an open software and [...]

This paper describes the implementation of a multidimensional block-matching nonrigid registration algorithm. The main features of the algorithm are its simplicity, its free form nature, the modularity of the similarity measure, which makes it possible [...]