Abstract— Tying suture knots is a time-consuming task performed frequently during Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). Automating this task could greatly reduce total surgery time f...
Hermann Georg Mayer, Faustino J. Gomez, Daan Wiers...
A seven degree-of-freedom (DOF) haptic device has been developed with applications towards robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. The device consists of four degrees of force ...
Navigation during Minimally Invasive Surgery
(MIS) has recognized difficulties due to limited field-of-view,
off-axis visualization and loss of direct 3D vision. This can cause
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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,...
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has recognized benefits of reduced patient trauma and recovery time. In practice, MIS procedures present a number of challenges due to the loss of ...
Peter Mountney, Danail Stoyanov, Andrew Davison, G...
— This video presents the in-house developed DLR MiroSurge robotic system for surgery. As shown, the system is suitable for both minimally invasive and open surgery. Essential pa...