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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
Toward automated tissue retraction in robot-assisted surgery
—Robotic surgical assistants are enhancing physician performance, enabling physicians to perform more delicate and precise minimally invasive surgery. However, these devices are ...
Sachin Patil, Ron Alterovitz
TITB
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Miniature in vivo Robots for Remote and Harsh Environments
Abstract--Long-term human space exploration will require contingencies for emergency medical procedures including some capability to perform surgery. The ability to perform minimal...
Mark Rentschler, Stephen R. Platt, Kyle R. Berg, J...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
150views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 5 months ago
Piezoelectric ultrasonic resonant micromotor with a volume of less than 1 mm3 for use in medical microbots
To improve on current methods of minimally invasive surgery, research is being carried out on systems that will permit procedures to be conducted on the micro-scale using remotely ...
Brett Watson, James Friend, Leslie Yeo, Metin Sitt...
MICCAI
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Probabilistic Framework for Tracking Deformable Soft Tissue in Minimally Invasive Surgery
The use of vision based algorithms in minimally invasive surgery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its potential in providing in situ 3D tissue deformation...
Peter Mountney, Benny P. L. Lo, Surapa Thiemjarus,...
MICCAI
2002
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Using an Endoscopic Solo Surgery Simulator for Quantitative Evaluation of Human-Machine Interface in Robotic Camera Positioning
Abstract. An endoscopic solo surgery simulator was designed to quantitatively evaluate human-machine interface in robotic camera positioning systems. Our simulator can assess not o...
Atsushi Nishikawa, Daiji Negoro, Haruhiko Kakutani...