Surgery Simulation and Soft Tissue Modeling : International Symposium IS4TM 2003 Juan Les Pins France June 12 13 2003 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium on Surgery Simulation and Soft Tissue Modeling IS4TM 2003 held in Juan Les Pins France in June 2003. The 33 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on soft tissue models haptic rendering cardiac modeling and patient specific simulators