Saul Alexis Heredia Perez,Enduo Zhao,Murilo Marques Marinho et al.
Saul Alexis Heredia Perez et al.
Purpose: Objective assessment of robotic surgical skills is particularly important in pediatric surgery, where limited case volume restricts training opportunities. This study presents a virtual reality (VR)-based framewo...
Even Harsigny,Pablo Alvarez,Michel Duprez et al.
Even Harsigny et al.
Purpose: Up to 4% of adults will develop strabismus in their lifetime. The most common surgical intervention involves adjusting the length of one or more extraocular muscles to correct the angular deviation. This correcti...
Gabriele Vanni,Francesco Simi,Marina Carbone et al.
Gabriele Vanni et al.
Purpose: Patient-specific templates (STs) are widely adopted to guide drilling and cutting in orthopaedic procedures. Their intraoperative placement typically relies on visual and tactile assessment, without feedback on p...
Mohammad Zohaib,Erol Ozgur,Mohammad Alkhatib et al.
Mohammad Zohaib et al.
Purpose: Augmented reality (AR) is a promising tumour-resection guidance tool in liver laparoscopy. Existing methods register a preoperative liver 3D model (reconstructed from CT or MRI) to 2D laparoscopic images. They us...
Lyubomir Zagorchev,Fabian Wenzel,André Gooßen et al.
Lyubomir Zagorchev et al.
Purpose: Accurate image registration is essential for aligning preoperative and intraoperative scans in image-guided neuro interventions, where even small misalignments can compromise navigation. This work introduces a mo...
Ilias Nahmed,Francesco Dettori,Juan Verde et al.
Ilias Nahmed et al.
Purpose: Microwave ablation (MWA) modeling and simulation bear great potential for locoregional treatment of liver tumors. However, accurately positioning the antenna according to a planned orientation/location is technic...
Markerless inside-out tool tracking for endoscopic spine surgery: a benchmarking study and clinical dataset [0.03%]
Peter Zhang,Youyang Shen,Frédéric Giraud et al.
Peter Zhang et al.
Purpose: Markerless inside-out surgical instrument tracking using a tool-mounted camera offers a promising solution to the limited clinical adoption of the existing navigation systems, which primarily rely on outside-in o...
Toward real-time autonomous navigation: transformer-based catheter tip tracking in fluoroscopy [0.03%]
Harry Robertshaw,Yanghe Hao,Weiyuan Deng et al.
Harry Robertshaw et al.
Purpose: Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) improves stroke outcomes, but is limited by a lack of local treatment access. Widespread distribution of reinforcement learning (RL)-based robotic systems can be used to alleviate thi...
Jiamei Guo,Zhehao Duan,Maria Neiiendam et al.
Jiamei Guo et al.
Purpose: Ultrasound-guided needle interventions are widely used in clinical practice, but their success critically depends on accurate needle placement, which is frequently hindered by the poor and intermittent visibility...
Alexander Saikia,Chiara Di Vece,Zhehua Mao et al.
Alexander Saikia et al.
Purpose: 3D reconstruction in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) enables enhanced surgical guidance through improved visualisation, tool tracking, and augmented reality. However, traditional RGB-based keypoint detection and...