Microsurgical techniques have been widely utilized in various surgical specialties, such as
ophthalmology, neurosurgery, and otolaryngology, which require intricate and precise …

A common infectious disease, otitis media (OM) has a low rate of early diagnosis, which
significantly increases the difficulty of treating the disease and the likelihood of serious …

Purpose A virtual reality (VR) system, where surgeons can practice procedures on virtual
anatomies, is a scalable and cost-effective alternative to cadaveric training. The fully …

Surgical simulators not only allow planning and training of complex procedures, but also
offer the ability to generate structured data for algorithm development, which may be applied …

Objective Preoperative planning for otologic or neurotologic procedures often requires
manual segmentation of relevant structures, which can be tedious and time‐consuming …

Purpose Tracking the 3D motion of the surgical tool and the patient anatomy is a
fundamental requirement for computer-assisted skull-base surgery. The estimated motion …

Objective To determine how augmented reality (AR) has been applied to the field of
otology/neurotology, examine trends and gaps in research, and provide an assessment of …

Background There is a lack of knowledge about inter-patient anatomical variation in the
temporal bone. Statistical shape models (SSMs) provide a powerful method for quantifying …

The introduction of image-guided surgical navigation (IGSN) has greatly benefited
technically demanding surgical procedures by providing real-time support and guidance to …

Over the last decades, the field of medicine has witnessed significant progress in artificial
intelligence (AI), the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), and deep learning (DL) systems …