Surgery

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...

Protective coatings for intraocular wirelessly controlled microrobots for implantation: Corrosion, cell culture, and in vivo animal tests.

Diseases in the ocular posterior segment are a leading cause of blindness. The surgical skills requi...

Recent Developments in the Use of Robotic Technology in Pediatric Urology.

Robotic surgery affords refined surgical movements that exceed the natural range of motion of the hu...

Robotic gait rehabilitation and substitution devices in neurological disorders: where are we now?

Gait abnormalities following neurological disorders are often disabling, negatively affecting patien...

Robotic Rehabilitator of the Rodent Upper Extremity: A System and Method for Assessing and Training Forelimb Force Production after Neurological Injury.

Rodent models of spinal cord injury are critical for the development of treatments for upper limb mo...

Multimodal hybrid imaging agents for sentinel node mapping as a means to (re)connect nuclear medicine to advances made in robot-assisted surgery.

PURPOSE: Radical prostatectomy and complementary extended pelvic lymph node dissection (ePLND) of se...

Robot-assisted excision of seminal vesicle cyst associated with ipsilateral renal agenesis.

Seminal vesicle cysts (SVCs) associated with other genitourologic abnormalities are rare. Often asso...

Single-Port Laparoscopic Liver Resection: Largest Turkish Experience.

Single-port laparoscopic surgery has the advantage of a hidden scar and reduced abdominal wall traum...

Robotic Quantification of Position Sense in Children With Perinatal Stroke.

Background Perinatal stroke is the leading cause of hemiparetic cerebral palsy. Motor deficits and t...

An updated method for the jugular catheterization of grower pigs for repeated blood sampling following an oral glucose tolerance test.

Jugular catheterization is a common procedure used under experimental conditions. However, there is ...

Robotic Versus Laparoscopic Total Mesorectal Excision (TME) for Sphincter-Saving Surgery: Is There Any Difference in the Transanal TME Rectal Approach? : A Single-Center Series of 120 Consecutive Patients.

BACKGROUND: Robotic total mesorectal excision (R-TME), a novel way for minimally invasive treatment ...