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...
– Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has become an important technique in practical surgical procedures. Compared with manually operated MIS procedures, surgical robot systems prov...
—Robotic surgical assistants are enhancing physician performance, enabling physicians to perform more delicate and precise minimally invasive surgery. However, these devices are ...
Robotic surgical systems such as Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci system provide a rich source of motion and video data from surgical procedures. In principle, this data can be u...
Henry C. Lin, Izhak Shafran, Todd E. Murphy, Allis...
— This paper presents a robotic system capable of using three-dimensional ultrasound to guide a surgical instrument to a tracked target location. Tracking of both the surgical in...
Paul M. Novotny, Jeffrey A. Stoll, Pierre E. Dupon...