Surgery

A Robotic Camera Holder Controlled by Head Movements: Exploring This New Robot-Surgeon Interface.

Most robotic camera steering devices (RCSDs) require active steering by the surgeon and necessarily...

Short-term outcomes of robot-assisted versus conventional laparoscopic surgery for early-stage endometrial cancer: A retrospective, single-center study.

AIM: We compared the short-term outcomes between conventional laparoscopic surgery (CLS) and robot-a...

Motor improvement estimation and task adaptation for personalized robot-aided therapy: a feasibility study.

BACKGROUND: In the past years, robotic systems have become increasingly popular in upper limb rehabi...

Utilization of a Peritoneal Interposition Flap to Prevent Symptomatic Lymphoceles After Robotic Radical Prostatectomy and Bilateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection.

The peritoneal interposition flap (PIF) has been shown to prevent postoperative symptomatic lymphoc...

Automated laparoscopic colorectal surgery workflow recognition using artificial intelligence: Experimental research.

BACKGROUND: Identifying laparoscopic surgical videos using artificial intelligence (AI) facilitates ...

Robotic low anterior resection: how to maximise success in difficult surgery.

Minimally invasive laparoscopic low or ultra-low anterior resection may present as a complex, techni...

A Shifting Paradigm in Robotic Heart Surgery: From Single-Procedure Approach to Establishing a Robotic Heart Center of Excellence.

Design and control of an image-guided robot for spine surgery in a hybrid OR.

BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive spine (MIS) fusion surgery requires image guidance and expert manual ...

A systematic review of the true benefit of robotic surgery: Ergonomics.

BACKGROUND: Ergonomics, as defined by the optimization of one's physical environment to enhance work...

Fully automated brain resection cavity delineation for radiation target volume definition in glioblastoma patients using deep learning.

BACKGROUND: Automated brain tumor segmentation methods are computational algorithms that yield tumor...

Robotic-assisted balloon angioplasty and stent placement with distal embolic protection device for severe carotid artery stenosis in a high-risk surgical patient.

The use of robotic assistance in endovascular interventions may facilitate smoother procedures with ...

Detecting the occluding contours of the uterus to automatise augmented laparoscopy: score, loss, dataset, evaluation and user study.

PURPOSE: The registration of a preoperative 3D model, reconstructed, for example, from MRI, to intra...

Using artificial neural networks to predict impingement and dislocation in total hip arthroplasty.

Dislocation after total hip arthroplasty (THA) remains a major issue and an important post-surgical ...

Robotic Approach to Outpatient Inguinal Hernia Repair.

BACKGROUND: Robotics offers improved ergonomics, visualization, instrument articulation, and tremor ...

Deep Learning Based on MR Imaging for Predicting Outcome of Uterine Fibroid Embolization.

PURPOSE: To develop and validate a deep learning model based on routine magnetic resonance (MR) imag...

How to do it: a robotic kidney autotransplant.

We describe Australia's first reported case of robotic kidney autotransplantation for a complex rena...

SPST-CNN: Spatial pyramid based searching and tagging of liver's intraoperative live views via CNN for minimal invasive surgery.

Laparoscopic liver surgery is challenging to perform because of compromised ability of the surgeon t...

Future of Robotic Surgical Education: The (R)evolution from Training the Barber-surgeon to Subspecialist Robot-surgeon.

Deep learning-based monocular placental pose estimation: towards collaborative robotics in fetoscopy.

PURPOSE: Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) is a placental defect occurring in monochorionic t...

A deep learning method for delineating early gastric cancer resection margin under chromoendoscopy and white light endoscopy.

BACKGROUND: Accurate delineation of cancer margins is critical for endoscopic curative resection. Th...

Re: Geraldine Pignot, Antoine Thiery-Vuillemin, Jochen Walz, et al. Nephrectomy After Complete Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: A New Surgical Challenge? Eur Urol. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2019.12.018: The Next Surgical Frontier in Kidney Cancer: Nephrectomy After Immune Checkpoint Inhibition.