Surgery

Virtual Reality Environments and Haptic Strategies to Enhance Implicit Learning and Motivation in Robot-Assisted Training.

Motivation plays a crucial role in motor learning and neurorehabilitation. Participants' motivation could decline to a point where they may stop training when facing a very difficult task. Conversely, participants may perform well and consider the training boring if the task is too easy. In this paper, we present a combination of a virtual reality environment with different robotic training strate...

Single-stride exposure to pulse torque assistance provided by a robotic exoskeleton at the hip and knee joints.

Robot assisted gait retraining is an increasingly common method for supporting restoration of walking function after neurological injury. Gait speed, an indicator of walking function, is correlated with propulsive force, a measure modulated by the posture of the trailing limb at push-off. With the ultimate goal of improving efficacy of robot assisted gait retraining, we sought to directly target g...

Development of a Robotic Unloader Brace for Investigation of Conservative Treatment of Medial Knee Osteoarthritis.

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a painful and debilitating condition that is associated with mechanical loading of the knee joint. Numerous conservative ...

Robot Learning of Assistive Manipulation Tasks by Demonstration via Head Gesture-based Interface.

Assistive robotic manipulators have the potential to support the lives of people suffering from severe motor impairments. They can support individuals...

Effect of Visual Information on Dominant and Non-dominant Hands During Bimanual Drawing with a Robotic Platform.

In a stable bimanual trajectory tracing task with interlimb spatial and temporal synchrony, blocking the visual information from one hand may alter th...

A Control Architecture for Grasp Strength Regulation in Myocontrolled Robotic Hands Using Vibrotactile Feedback: Preliminary Results.

Nowadays, electric-powered hand prostheses do not provide adequate sensory instrumentation and artificial feedback to allow users voluntarily and fine...

[A New Micro-traumatic Laparoscopic Surgery Robot System].

At present, there still exist some limitations in the laparoscopic surgery robot represented by da Vinci surgical robot, such as the lack of force fee...

Benefits of Robotic Camera Assistance in Minimally Invasive Bariatric Procedures: Prospective Clinical Trial Using a Joystick-Guided Camera-Holder.

BACKGROUND: While minimally invasive surgery is a growing sector in medicine, camera assistance remains a problem. Especially in bariatric surgery, th...

Machine learning-based preoperative predictive analytics for lumbar spinal stenosis.

OBJECTIVEPatient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) following decompression surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) demonstrate considerable heterogen...

Exploring the survival prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma based on the cancer genome atlas database using artificial neural network.

The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical factors affecting the survival prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma, and to establish a predictive m...

Using Machine Learning Applied to Real-World Healthcare Data for Predictive Analytics: An Applied Example in Bariatric Surgery.

OBJECTIVES: Laparoscopic metabolic surgery (MxS) can lead to remission of type 2 diabetes (T2D); however, treatment response to MxS can be heterogeneo...

MySurgeryRisk: Development and Validation of a Machine-learning Risk Algorithm for Major Complications and Death After Surgery.

OBJECTIVE: To accurately calculate the risk for postoperative complications and death after surgery in the preoperative period using machine-learning ...

Brief Report: A Novel System to Evaluate Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Two Humanoid Robots.

We investigated the feasibility of our novel evaluation system for use with children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We prepared the experimenta...

Emerging next-generation robotic colonoscopy systems towards painless colonoscopy.

Advances in the field of robotics have allowed modern technology to be integrated into medicine and that can minimize patients suffering from the side...

Does component placement affect short-term clinical outcome in robotic-arm assisted unicompartmental knee arthroplasty?

AIMS: The purpose of this multicentre observational study was to investigate the association between intraoperative component positioning and soft-tis...

How to build a robotic program.

OBJECTIVE: Advancements in the robotic surgical technology have revolutionized the standard of care for many surgical procedures. The purpose of this ...

Technical features and the demonstrated advantages of the Retzius sparing robotic prostatectomy.

OBJECTIVE: Robot-assisted laparoscopic  radical prostatectomy (RARP) is nowadays considered  the main surgical option for localized prostate cancer (P...

Complications of robot assisted radical prostatectomy.

The urology community has adopted robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) as the most preferred surgical therapeutic approach in the management of...

What's new in robotic partial nephrectomy.

OBJECTIVE: Robot assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) is a minimally invasive option for patients with small renal masses undergoing partial nephrectom...

Role of robotic surgery in functional urology.

Three-dimensional, high-definition images, small instruments with endowrist technology, ergonomic position and the easiness to teach, are possibly the...