Publications

Book Chapters

Rendering Surgery Simulation with Vulkan
Nicholas Milef, Di Qi, and Suvranu De
GPU Zen 2 (2019)
Book

Journal Papers

Divided Voxels: an efficient algorithm for interactive cutting of deformable objects
Di Qi, Nicholas Milef, Suvranu De
The Visual Computer (2020)
Article

Surgeons with five or more actual cricothyrotomies perform significantly better on a VR simulator
Di Qi, Emil Petrusa, Uwe Kruger, Nicholas Milef, Mohamad Rassoul Abu-Nuwar, Mohamad Haque, Robert Lim, Daniel B. Jones, Melih Turkseven, Doga Demirel, Tansel Halic, Suvranu De, Noelle Saillant
Journal of Surgical Research (2020)
Article

Virtual operating room with AI guidance: design and validation of a fire scenario
Di Qi, Adam Ryason, Nicholas Milef, Samuel Alfred, Mohamad Rassoul Abu-Nuwar, Mojdeh Kappus, Suvranu De, Daniel B. Jones
Surgical Endoscopy (2020)
Article

Conference Posters

Foveated Monte-Carlo Denoising
Nicholas Milef, Nima Kalantari
ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Posters
Poster

Virtual Reality Operating Room with AI Guidance:
Design and Validation of a Fire Scenario

Di Qi, Adam Ryason, Nicholas Milef, Samuel Alfred, Mohamad R. Abu-Nuwar, Mojdeh Kappus, Suvranu De, and Daniel B Jones
Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Virtual Meeting (2020)
Poster

TRAINING ON A VIRTUAL REALITY CRICOTHYROIDOTOMY SIMULATOR IMPROVES SKILLS AND TRANSFERS TO A SIMULATED REAL-WORLD PROCEDURE
Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Coleman Odlozil, Rehma Shabbir, Di Qi, Melih Turkseven, Nicholos Milef, Suvranu De, Geoffrey Funk, Rebecca J Weddle
Proceedings of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) 2020, Poster Presentation
Abstract

P403 VALIDATION OF A VIRTUAL CRICOTHYRODOTOMY SIMULATOR VAST-CCT
Di Qi, Uwe Kruger, Nicholas Milef, Mohamad Rassoul Abu-Nuwar, COL Mohamad Haque, COL Robert Lim, Daniel B. Jones, Melih Turkseven, Emil Petrusa, Doga Demirel, Tansel Halic, Suvranu De, Noelle Saillant, M.D.
Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Annual Meeting (2019)
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P400 Development of a Physics-Based Virtual Interactive Endotracheal Intubation (ETI) Simulator
Zhaohui Xia, Hong Li, Nicholas Milef, Adam Ryason, Daniel Jones, Suvranu De, Stephanie Jones
Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Annual Meeting (2019)
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P376 Design and Development of Virtual Endoluminal Surgical Simulator (VESS) for Endoluminal Submucosal Extraction
Zhaohui Xia, Sudeep Hegde, Nicholas Milef, Suvranu De, Daniel Jones, Mundeep Sawhney, Cullen Jackson
Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Annual Meeting (2019)
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P303 Virtual electrosurgery skills trainer (VEST TM) bipolar energy module may be used with FUSE curriculum to improve safety in using bipolar devices
Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Carlos Lopez, Nicholas Milef, Rehma Shabbir, Coleman Odlozil, Darius Sherman, Jaisa Olasky, Katerina Wells, Sanket Chauhan, James Fleshman, Suvranu De, and Daniel B. Jones
16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery (2018)

P330 Design of the electrosurgery skill trainer (VEST) direct and capacitive coupling effects module
Carlos A. Lopez, Asish Misra, Nicholas B. Milef, Nicole Santos, Akole Lamien, Caroline G. L. Cao, Steven Schwaitzberg, Daniel B. Jones, Suvranu De, and Jaisa S. Olasky
16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery (2018)