INTRODUCTION: Procedures involving the external genitalia are the most common pediatric urologic operations. Our group identified excess instrumentation for these cases to be a potential cause of operating room (OR) inefficiency at our large, freesta...
Fluorescence imaging is increasingly being implemented in surgery. One of the drawbacks of its application is the need to switch back-and-forth between fluorescence- and white-light-imaging settings and not being able to dissect safely under fluoresc...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
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PURPOSE: Using the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK), we propose and experimentally demonstrate transfer learning (Xfer) of dynamics between different configurations and robots distributed around the world. This can extend recent research using neural net...
BACKGROUND: Intraoperative tool movement data have been demonstrated to be clinically useful in quantifying surgical performance. However, collecting this information from intraoperative video requires laborious hand annotation. The ability to automa...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
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BACKGROUND: Recent tele-mentoring technologies for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) augments the operative field with movements of virtual surgical instruments as visual cues. The objective of this work is to assess different user-interfaces that eff...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
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PURPOSE: Automatic image segmentation of surgical instruments is a fundamental task in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, which greatly improves the context awareness of surgeons during the operation. A novel method based on Mask R-CNN is pro...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
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BACKGROUND: Continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (CCC) requires surgeons to manipulate fragile eye tissue at the microscale. The limited perceptual accuracy of surgeons makes it difficult to precisely position the forceps. Robot technology provides a...
Clarifying the generalizability of deep-learning-based surgical-instrument segmentation networks in diverse surgical environments is important in recognizing the challenges of overfitting in surgical-device development. This study comprehensively eva...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Inter-operator variations in the level of intraoperative laparoscope control by surgeons influence surgical outcomes. We aimed to construct a laparoscopic surgery quantification system (LSQS) for real-time evaluation of the surge...