Surgery

Robot Guided 'Pen Skill' Training in Children with Motor Difficulties.

Motor deficits are linked to a range of negative physical, social and academic consequences. Haptic ...

Clinical and oncologic outcomes of totally robotic total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer: initial results in a center for minimally invasive surgery.

PURPOSE: A robotic system was mainly designed to allow precise dissection in deep and narrow spaces....

Vision-based Nano Robotic System for High-throughput Non-embedded Cell Cutting.

Cell cutting is a significant task in biology study, but the highly productive non-embedded cell cut...

Robotic versus laparoscopic low anterior resection for rectal cancer: a meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: The objective of this meta-analysis was to compare the clinical and oncologic outcomes o...

Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Total Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion: Comparative Analysis with Extracorporeal Urinary Diversion.

PURPOSE: To compare the perioperative outcomes, postoperative complications, and early oncologic out...

Long-Term Efficacy of Laparoscopic or Robotic Adenomyomectomy with or without Medical Treatment for Severely Symptomatic Adenomyosis.

BACKGROUND/AIMS: To determine the long-term efficacy of laparoscopic or robotic adenomyomectomy with...

Preliminary Report on the Safety and Efficacy of Staged versus Complete Revascularization in Patients with Multivessel Disease at the Time of Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

This study aims to determine the safety and efficacy of complete versus staged-percutaneous coronary...

Adapting a Low-Cost Selective Compliant Articulated Robotic Arm for Spillage Avoidance.

Flexible automation systems provide the needed adaptability to serve shorter-term projects and speci...

Compensating Hand Function in Chronic Stroke Patients Through the Robotic Sixth Finger.

A novel solution to compensate hand grasping abilities is proposed for chronic stroke patients. The ...

An all-joint-control master device for single-port laparoscopic surgery robots.

PURPOSE: Robots for single-port laparoscopic surgery (SPLS) typically have all of their joints locat...

Automatic tracking of laparoscopic instruments for autonomous control of a cameraman robot.

BACKGROUND: An automated instrument tracking procedure was designed and developed for autonomous con...

Advances in Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery: Pushing the Envelope.

Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) represents a radical change in the approach to lung...

The voluntary driven exoskeleton Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) for postoperative training of thoracic ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament: a case report.

CONTEXT: The hybrid assistive limb (HAL) is a wearable robot suit that assists in voluntary control ...

Fast Convolutional Neural Network Training Using Selective Data Sampling: Application to Hemorrhage Detection in Color Fundus Images.

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are deep learning network architectures that have pushed forwar...

Hydrodynamics of a robotic fish tail: effects of the caudal peduncle, fin ray motions and the flow speed.

Recent advances in understanding fish locomotion with robotic devices have included the use of biomi...

Vision-Based Pose Estimation for Robot-Mediated Hand Telerehabilitation.

Vision-based Pose Estimation (VPE) represents a non-invasive solution to allow a smooth and natural ...

da Vinci robotic versus laparoscopic surgery in rectal cancer: a meta-analysis of postsurgery complications.

Pyeloplasty in children: perioperative results and long-term outcomes of robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery compared to open surgery.

BACKGROUND: A few studies have compared robotic-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty (RALP) with open p...

Totally robotic rectal resection: an experience of the first 100 consecutive cases.

INTRODUCTION: Robotic surgery provides an alternative option for a minimal access approach. It provi...

State of the Art and Future Directions for Lower Limb Robotic Exoskeletons.

Research on robotic exoskeletons has rapidly expanded over the previous decade. Advances in robotic ...

Use and Outcomes of Minimally Invasive Lobectomy for Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in the National Cancer Data Base.

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have raised concerns that video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) lobectomy...