Over the past 30 years, the application of robotics in the field of neurotology has grown. Robots are able to perform increasingly complex tasks with ever improving accuracy, allowing them to be used in a broad array of applications. A mastoidectomy,...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
34271262
A simple mastoidectomy is used to remove inflammation of the mastoid cavity and to create a route to the skull base and middle ear. However, due to the complexity and difficulty of the simple mastoidectomy, implementing robot vision for assisted surg...
Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology
34325455
HYPOTHESIS: Virtual fixtures can be enforced in cooperative-control robotic mastoidectomies with submillimeter accuracy.
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
37171660
PURPOSE: Robotic assistance in otologic surgery can reduce the task load of operating surgeons during the removal of bone around the critical structures in the lateral skull base. However, safe deployment into the anatomical passageways necessitates ...
Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
38520201
OBJECTIVE: To develop a convolutional neural network-based computer vision model to recognize and track 2 mastoidectomy surgical instruments-the drill and the suction-irrigator-from intraoperative video recordings of mastoidectomies.
Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology
39473329
OBJECTIVE: Develop an artificial intelligence (AI) model to track otologic instruments in mastoidectomy videos.