The implementation of telemanipulator systems for cardiac surgery enabled heart surgeons to perform delicate minimally invasive procedures with high precision under stereoscopic v...
Hermann Georg Mayer, Istvan Nagy, Alois Knoll, Eva...
The quest for providing tissue characterization and functional mapping
during minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has motivated the development
of new surgical tools that extend the...
Peter Mountney, Stamatia Giannarou, Daniel Elson...
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) constrains instrument motions to 4 DOF by precluding lateral motion at the incision. Robotic MIS systems can interpose arbitrary mappings between ...
Endonasal transsphenoidal pituitary surgery is a minimally invasive endoscopic procedure, applied to remove various kinds of pituitary tumors. To reduce the risk associated with t...
The assessment of surgical skills for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has traditionally been conducted with visual observation and objective scoring. This paper presents a practic...