1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910139740303321

Titolo

Ergonomic checkpoints in agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : practical and easy-to-implement solutions for improving safety, health and working conditions in agriculture / / prepared by the International Labour Office ; in collaboration with the International Ergonomics Association

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva, : International Labour Office, 2012

ISBN

92-2-125449-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

620.8

620.8/2

Soggetti

Agricultural laborers - Health and hygiene

Work - Physiological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Copyright page; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Suggestions for using the manual; Ergonomic checklist for agriculture; Storage and handling of materials; Workstations and tools; Machine safety; Agricultural vehicles; Physical environment; Control of hazardous chemicals; Environmental protection; Welfare facilities; Family and community cooperation; Work organization and working schedules; Annexes; Annex 1 Using Ergonomic checkpoints in agriculture in participatory action-oriented training; Annex 2 Action checklist for agriculture

Annex 3 Sample programmes for a training workshop using Ergonomic checkpoints in agricultureAnnex 4 Examples of group work results

Sommario/riassunto

Agriculture is one of the most hazardous sectors in both developing and developed countries. Increasing attention is being given to applying practical actions in rural and agricultural settings to reduce work-related accidents and diseases, improve living conditions and increase productivity... This report is prepared by the International Labour Office in collaboration with the International Ergonomics Association.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910149367203321

Autore

Payandeh Shahram <1957->

Titolo

Visual tracking in conventional minimally invasive surgery / / Shahram Payandeh, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, Canada

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : C&R Press, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-315-35048-3

1-315-36748-3

1-4987-6396-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Collana

Chapman & Hall Book

Disciplina

617.9/178

Soggetti

Surgical instruments and apparatus - Design and construction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A Chapman and Hall Book--title page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1. Overview of minimally invasive surgery -- chapter 2. Endoscope setup and calibration -- chapter 3. Marker-based tracking -- chapter 4. Markerless tracking : Gaussian approach -- chapter 5. Markerless tracking : non-Gaussian approach -- chapter 6. Region-based tracking.

Sommario/riassunto

Visual Tracking in Conventional Minimally Invasive Surgery introduces the various tools and methodologies that can be used to enhance a conventional surgical setup with some degree of automation. The main focus of this book is on methods for tracking surgical tools and how they can be used to assist the surgeon during the surgical operation. Various notions associated with surgeon-computer interfaces and image-guided navigation are explored, with a range of experimental results. The book starts with some basic motivations for minimally invasive surgery and states the various distinctions between robotic and non-robotic (conventional) versions of this procedure. Common components of this type of operation are presented with a review of the literature addressing the automation aspects of such a setup. Examples of tracking results are shown for both motion and gesture recognition of surgical tools, which can be used as part of the surgeon-computer interface. In the case of marker-less tracking, where no special visual



markers can be added to the surgical tools, the tracking results are divided into two types of methodology, depending on the nature and the estimate of the visual noise. Details of the tracking methods are presented using standard Kalman filters and particle filters. The last part of the book provides approaches for tracking a region on the surgical scene defined by the surgeon. Examples of how these tracking approaches can be used as part of image-guided navigation are demonstrated. This book is designed for control engineers interested in visual tracking, computer vision researchers and system designers involved with surgical automation, as well as surgeons, biomedical engineers, and robotic researchers.