Purang Abolmaesumi Knihy

Exploring the multifaceted nature of crisis, this collection features essays and illustrations from the 2020 Wall Scholars at UBC. It examines personal and societal impacts during a time of global upheaval, offering varied perspectives—from a detailed analysis of Japan's nuclear crisis to a satirical take on corporate academia, and a poetic reflection from an ICU doctor on COVID-19. The vibrant illustrations complement the thought-provoking writing, creating surprising connections and challenging readers to reconsider their understanding of crisis.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions, IPCAI 2014, held in Fukuoka, Japan, on June 28, 2014. The 28 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on planning, simulation, patient specific models for computer assisted interventions, medical robotics and surgical navigation, interventional imaging and advanced intra-op visualization, cognition, modeling and context awareness, clinical applications, systems, software, and validation.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions IPCAI 2012, held in Pisa, Italy, on June 27, 2012. The 17 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers present novel technical concepts, clinical needs and applications as well as hardware, software and systems and their validation. The main technological focus is on patient-specific modeling and its use in interventions, image-guided and robotic surgery, real-time tracking and imaging.