Information loss challenges in surgical navigation systems: From information fusion to AI-based approaches

L Xu, H Zhang, J Wang, A Li, S Song, H Ren, L Qi… - Information …, 2023 - Elsevier
Surgical navigation technology provides minimally invasive surgery (MIS) with the relative
pose relationships amongst medical images, surgical instruments, and lesions. On the other …

Simultaneous Hand–Eye, Tool–Flange, and Robot–Robot Calibration for Comanipulation by Solving the Problem

L Wu, J Wang, L Qi, K Wu, H Ren… - IEEE TRansactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multirobot comanipulation shows great potential in surpassing the limitations of single-robot
manipulation in complicated tasks such as robotic surgeries. However, a dynamic multirobot …

Surgical instrument tracking by multiple monocular modules and a sensor fusion approach

J Wang, S Song, H Ren, CM Lim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a sensor fusion-based surgical instrument tracking system which uses
multiple monocular modules. The system is an optical tracking system, which has been …

An intelligent tracking system for surgical instruments in complex surgical environment

L Chen, L Ma, F Zhang, X Yang, L Sun - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the problem of visual occlusion in optical surgical tracking system has
attracted widespread attention. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a tracking system …

Hybrid recurrent neural network architecture-based intention recognition for human–robot collaboration

X Gao, L Yan, G Wang, C Gerada - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human–robot-collaboration requires robot to proactively and intelligently recognize the
intention of human operator. Despite deep learning approaches have achieved certain …

Wearable surgical optical tracking system based on multi-modular sensor fusion

T Zhang, J Wang, S Song… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical tracking system (OTS) is an important part of surgical navigation and has been
commonly employed in clinical practice due to high accuracy and precision. However …

Joint rigid registration of multiple generalized point sets with hybrid mixture models

Z Min, J Wang, MQH Meng - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aligning different views or representations of anatomy is an essential task in both medical
imaging computing (MIC) and computer-assisted interventions'(CAIs') communities …

Robust generalized point cloud registration with orientational data based on expectation maximization

Z Min, J Wang, MQH Meng - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a robust generalized point cloud (PC) registration method that utilizes
not only the positional but also the orientation information associated with each point. The …

Optimization scheme for online viewpoint planning of active optical navigation system in orthopedic surgeries

J Han, M Luo, Y You, Y Meng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical tracking system (OTS) is widely used in robot orthopedic surgeries. During the
surgery, the locomotion of the surgical instrument along different osteotomy planes and the …

Tracking-by-registration: A robust approach for optical tracking system in surgical navigation

J Wang, T Zhang, Z Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical tracking system (OTS) is an important part of surgical navigation and has been
widely employed in clinical practice due to high accuracy and reliability. However, current …