PURPOSE: Minimally invasive needle-based interventions are commonly used in cancer diagnosis and treatment, including procedures, such as biopsy, brachytherapy, and microwave ablation. Although MR-guided needle placement offers several distinct advan...
Surgical instrument segmentation is recognised as a key enabler in providing advanced surgical assistance and improving computer-assisted interventions. In this work, we propose SegMatch, a semi-supervised learning method to reduce the need for expen...
This study introduces an innovative method for gesture recognition in medical robotics, utilizing Capsule Neural Networks (CNNs) in conjunction with the Modified Spring Search Algorithm (MSSA). This approach achieves remarkable efficiency in gesture ...
Progress in biomedical engineering (Bristol, England)
Apr 22, 2025
Advancements in assistive robots have significantly transformed healthcare procedures in recent years. Clinical continuum robots have enhanced minimally invasive surgeries, offering benefits to patients such as reduced blood loss and a short recovery...
Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Apr 16, 2025
BACKGROUND: The creation of operative reports is a tedious documentation task that increases administrative burden, which is a potential driver of burnout. Additionally, operative reports are inherently subjective and may contain inaccuracies and inc...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 12, 2025
PURPOSE: Probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) is a noninvasive technique that enables the direct visualization of tissue at a microscopic level in real time. One of the main challenges in using pCLE is maintaining the probe within a worki...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 4, 2025
BACKGROUND: Trackable ultrasound probes facilitate ultrasound-guided procedures, allowing real-time fusion of augmented ultrasound images and live video streams. The integration aids surgeons in accurately locating lesions within organs, and this cou...
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Mar 31, 2025
We report the first 2 cases of fully robotic recipient left graft living donor liver transplants, demonstrating the technical feasibility of using left grafts, accompanied by a video. We anticipate that making the donor selection criteria more libera...
BACKGROUND: Robotic-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) is a complex surgical procedure for treating esophageal cancer. Artificial intelligence (AI) is an uprising technology with increasing applications in the surgical field. This scop...
The accurate recognition of surgical instruments is essential for the advancement of intraoperative artificial intelligence (AI) systems. In this study, we assessed the YOLOv8 model's efficacy in identifying robotic and laparoscopic instruments in ro...
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