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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 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
IJRR
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Equilibrium Conformations of Concentric-tube Continuum Robots
Robots consisting of several concentric, preshaped, elastic tubes can work dexterously in narrow, constrained, and/or winding spaces, as are commonly found in minimally invasive s...
D. Caleb Rucker, Robert J. Webster III, Gregory S....
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Toward Modeling of a Suturing Task
In this paper we present our initial work on simulating suture and suturing using mass-spring models. Various models for simulating suture were studied, and a simple linear mass-s...
Matt LeDuc, Shahram Payandeh, John Dill
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Episode Classification for the Analysis of Tissue/Instrument Interaction with Multiple Visual Cues
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...
Benny P. L. Lo, Ara Darzi, Guang-Zhong Yang
VRST
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Interaction, imagination and immersion some research needs
This paper discusses four ways that humans interact with their environments, plus four variables that determine the experience of virtual reality, and also which of the interactio...
Thomas B. Sheridan