Surgical applications of compliant mechanisms: A review

TL Thomas… - Journal of …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Current surgical devices are mostly rigid and are made of stiff materials, even though their
predominant use is on soft and wet tissues. With the emergence of compliant mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] Robotic systems and navigation techniques in orthopedics: A historical review

T Li, A Badre, F Alambeigi, M Tavakoli - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Since the da Vinci surgical system was approved by the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) in 2000, the development and deployment of various robot-assisted minimally …

Synthetic data accelerates the development of generalizable learning-based algorithms for X-ray image analysis

C Gao, BD Killeen, Y Hu, RB Grupp… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) now enables automated interpretation of medical images. However,
AI's potential use for interventional image analysis remains largely untapped. This is …

A surgical robotic system for treatment of pelvic osteolysis using an FBG-equipped continuum manipulator and flexible instruments

S Sefati, R Hegeman, F Alambeigi… - IEEE/ASME …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the development and experimental evaluation of a redundant robotic
system for the less-invasive treatment of osteolysis (bone degradation) behind the …

A dexterous robotic system for autonomous debridement of osteolytic bone lesions in confined spaces: Human cadaver studies

S Sefati, R Hegeman, I Iordachita… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a dexterous robotic system for autonomous debridement of osteolytic
bone lesions in confined spaces. The proposed system is distinguished from the state-of-the …

Design, implementation, and control of a deformable manipulator robot based on a compliant spine

T Morales Bieze, A Kruszewski… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents the conception, the numerical modeling, and the control of a dexterous,
deformable manipulator bio-inspired by the skeletal spine found in vertebrate animals …

Data-driven shape sensing of a surgical continuum manipulator using an uncalibrated fiber Bragg grating sensor

S Sefati, C Gao, I Iordachita, RH Taylor… - IEEE sensors …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a data-driven learning-based approach for shape sensing and Distal-
end Position Estimation (DPE) of a surgical Continuum Manipulator (CM) in constrained …

Autonomous data-driven manipulation of unknown anisotropic deformable tissues using unmodelled continuum manipulators

F Alambeigi, Z Wang, R Hegeman… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an autonomous manipulation approach for tissues with anisotropic deformation
behavior using a continuum manipulator. The key feature of our vision-based study is an …

An active steering hand-held robotic system for minimally invasive orthopaedic surgery using a continuum manipulator

JH Ma, S Sefati, RH Taylor… - IEEE robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents the development and experimental evaluation of an active steering hand-
held robotic system for milling and curved drilling in minimally invasive orthopaedic …

A concentric tube steerable drilling robot for minimally invasive spinal fixation of osteoporotic vertebrae

S Sharma, TG Mohanraj, JP Amadio… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spinal fixation with rigid pedicle screws have shown to be an effective treatment for many
patients. However, this surgical option has been proved to be insufficient and will eventually …