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ICRA
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2010
IEEE
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...
IJRR
2008
13 years 8 months ago
2008
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...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2009
IEEE
— 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...
MICCAI
2007
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
2007
Springer
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...
WSCG
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
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...