Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication PrinciplesDeformation model of soft tissue for abdominal aorta and aneurysm

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Deformation Model of Soft Tissue for Abdominal Aorta and Aneurysm"
by M.B.K. Ghembaza, Y. Amirat, K. Djouani, B. Daachi
in the 2005 Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, vol. 4, pp 3574-3579.

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE\´s Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission. The misconduct was committed specifically by M.B.K. Ghembaza, and his actions were done without the knowledge or approval of his coauthors.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"Modelling Liver Tissue Properties Using a Non-linear Visco-elastic Model for Surgery Simulation"

by Jean-Marc Schwartz, Marc Denninger, Denis Rancourt, Christian Moisan, Deni Laurendeau
in Medical Image Analysis, vol. 9, no. 2, Elsevier, April 2005 (Available online December 2004), pp. 103-112The main purpose of this paper concerns deformation modelling for surgery simulation. Thus, we propose a method allowing fast calculation of non-linear and viscoelastic mechanical deformations and forces. This approach is based on the finite elements theory, and was conceived as an extension of the linear elastic tensor-mass method. The implementation of this method shows its well suitability for real-time surgery simulation.