Abstract— Flexible needles with bevel tips are being developed as useful tools for minimally invasive surgery and percutaneous therapy. When such a needle is inserted into soft t...
Wooram Park, Kyle Brandon Reed, Allison M. Okamura...
We develop a new motion planning algorithm for a variant of a Dubins car with binary left/right steering and apply it to steerable needles, a new class of flexible beveltip medica...
Ron Alterovitz, Michael S. Branicky, Kenneth Y. Go...
— A recent approach to steerable needle design is based on combining pre-curved tubes concentrically. By rotating and extending the tubes with respect to each other, the position...
Abstract. A needle-tissue interaction model is an essential part of every needle insertion simulator. In this paper, a new experimental method for the modeling of needle-tissue int...
This paper focuses on a fast and effective model for range images segmentation and modeling. The first phase is based on the well-known Simoncelli's steerable pyramid, useful...
Vittoria Bruni, Domenico Vitulano, Umberto Manisca...