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ICRA
2000
IEEE
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15 years 2 months ago
Evaluating Control Modes for Constrained Robotic Surgery
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) constrains instrument motions to 4 DOF by precluding lateral motion at the incision. Robotic MIS systems can interpose arbitrary mappings between ...
Fuji Lai, Robert D. Howe
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Insertable surgical imaging device with pan, tilt, zoom, and lighting
Abstract— This paper describes work we have done in developing an insertable surgical imaging device with multiple degrees-of-freedom for minimally invasive surgery. The device i...
Tie Hu, Peter K. Allen, Nancy J. Hogle, Dennis L. ...
CARS
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Measuring grasping and cutting forces for reality-based haptic modeling
The modeling of grasping and cutting in surgery are two fundamental tasks that must be achieved for the development of a reality-based haptic interface in robot-assisted surgery. C...
Gregory Tholey, Teeranoot Chanthasopeephan, Tie Hu...
ICIP
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Semiautomatic non-rigid 3-D image registration for MR-Guided Liver Cancer Surgery
Recently a growing interest has been seen in minimally invasive treatments with open configuration magnetic resonance (Open-MR) scanners. In this paper, we proposed a semi-automat...
Yen-Wei Chen, Katsumi Tsubokawa, Rui Xu, Shigehiro...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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15 years 2 months ago
Tactile Tracking of Arteries in Robotic Surgery
Locating arteries hidden beneath superficial tissue can be a difficult task in minimally invasive surgery. This paper reports the development of a system that finds the paths of a...
Ryan A. Beasley, Robert D. Howe