This project aims at developing technology for training on tele-robotic surgical procedures.

Detecting the skill level of the surgeons and residents are important because they indicate the level of proficiency and can be used to control the amount and length of training that one takes during residency and fellowship years.  Currently a combination of subjective and objective scoring methodology is used by...

Multigrid computational strategies are being developed to accelerate solution speed. Of special interest are schemes that perform robustly for changing Dirichlet boundary conditions without reforming the sparse matrix structures at multiple levels. Techniques are being developed to represent real time changes in mesh topology at the finest scale with both...