BACKGROUND: Segmentation of important structures in temporal bone CT is the basis of image-guided otologic surgery. Manual segmentation of temporal bone CT is time- consuming and laborious. We assessed the feasibility and generalization ability of a ...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Nov 8, 2021
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology to better control a human-robot collaboration for robotic dental implant placement. We have designed a human-robot collaborative implant system (HRCDIS) which is based on a zero-force ...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Oct 22, 2021
PURPOSE: Robot-assisted needle insertion guided by 2D ultrasound (US) can effectively improve the accuracy and success rate of clinical puncture. To this end, automatic and accurate needle-tracking methods are important for monitoring puncture proces...
BACKGROUND: Accurate prosthesis placement in arthroplasty is an important factor in the long-term success of these interventions. Many types of guidance technology have been described to date often suffering from high costs, complex theater integrati...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Aug 27, 2021
PURPOSE: Dental implant surgery is an effective method for remediating the loss of teeth. Robot is expected to increase the accuracy of dental implant surgery. However, most of them are industrial serial robot, with low stiffness and non-unique inver...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Aug 20, 2021
PURPOSE: Surgical workflow recognition is a crucial and challenging problem when building a computer-assisted surgery system. Current techniques focus on utilizing a convolutional neural network and a recurrent neural network (CNN-RNN) to solve the s...
We report a case of multiple brain abscesses' puncture, employing the ROSA™ Brain surgical robot (Zimmer Biomet) and the O-arm® O2 Imaging System (Medtronic). A 51-year-old man was diagnosed with multiple supratentorial ring enhancing cystic lesions ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Aug 19, 2021
OBJECTIVE: In this paper, we introduce an autonomous robotic ultrasound (US) imaging system based on reinforcement learning (RL). The proposed system and framework are committed to controlling the US probe to perform fully autonomous imaging of a sof...
INTRODUCTION: There is still a lack of availability of high-quality multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) interpreted by experienced uro-radiologists to rule out clinically significant PC (csPC). Consequently, we developed a new imaging ...
Surgical workflow recognition is a fundamental task in computer-assisted surgery and a key component of various applications in operating rooms. Existing deep learning models have achieved promising results for surgical workflow recognition, heavily ...