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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 4 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
IROS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 8 days ago
A System for Robotic Heart Surgery that Learns to Tie Knots Using Recurrent Neural Networks
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...
WACV
2002
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Viewing Enhancement in Video-Endoscopy
Video-endoscopy (Figure 1), a mode of minimally invasive surgery, has proven to be significantly less invasive to the patient. However, it creates a much more complex operation env...
Dan Koppel, Yuan-Fang Wang, Hua Lee
ISMS
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Design, Development, and Testing of an Automated Laparoscopic Grasper with 3-D Force Measurement Capability
Advancements in robotics have led to significant improvements in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. The use of these robotic systems has improved surgeon dexterity, reduced...
Gregory Tholey, Anand Pillarisetti, William Green,...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2003
13 years 7 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