The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has facilitated its application in medical fields. However, there has been little research for AI-assisted endoscopy, despite the clinical significance of the efficiency and safety of cannulation in the...
BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE: Insertion of ventricular catheters into small ventricles may require image guidance. Several options exist, including ultrasound guidance, frameless, and frame-based stereotactic approaches. There is no literature on manage...
Catheters used for endovascular navigation in interventional procedures lack dexterity at the distal tip. Neurointerventionists, in particular, encounter challenges in up to 25% of aneurysm cases largely due to the inability to steer and navigate the...
Soft robots can provide advantages for medical interventions given their low cost and their ability to change shape and safely apply forces to tissue. This article explores the potential for their use for endoscopically-guided balloon dilation proced...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
34874526
PURPOSE: Existing works showed great performance in pixel-level guidewire segmentation. However, topology-level segmentation has not been fully exploited in these works. Guidewire (tip) endpoint localization and (guidewire) loop detection are typical...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
34550878
OBJECTIVE: Retinal vein cannulation is a technically demanding surgical procedure and its feasibility may rely on using advanced surgical robots equipped with force-sensing microneedles. Reliable detection of the moment of venous puncture is importan...
Zhongguo yi liao qi xie za zhi = Chinese journal of medical instrumentation
35678431
The high incidence of cardiovascular diseases is a serious threat to human health, and endovascular surgery has become the standard treatment for most interventional cardiovascular diseases. The robotassisted endovascular surgery system further enhan...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
35576863
OBJECTIVE: Augmenting X-ray (XR) fluoroscopy with 3D anatomic overlays is an essential technique to improve the guidance of the catheterization procedures. Unfortunately, cardiac and respiratory motion compromises the augmented fluoroscopy. Motion co...
A major challenge during autonomous navigation in endovascular interventions is the complexity of operating in a deformable but constrained workspace with an instrument. Simulation of deformations for it can provide a cost-effective training platform...