State of the art and future opportunities in MRI-guided robot-assisted surgery and interventions

H Su, KW Kwok, K Cleary, I Iordachita… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide high-quality 3-D visualization of target
anatomy, surrounding tissue, and instrumentation, but there are significant challenges in …

A survey for machine learning-based control of continuum robots

X Wang, Y Li, KW Kwok - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Soft continuum robots have been accepted as a promising category of biomedical robots,
accredited to the robots' inherent compliance that makes them safely interact with their …

Multilevel operation strategy of a vascular interventional robot system for surgical safety in teleoperation

X Bao, S Guo, Y Guo, C Yang, L Shi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remote-controlled vascular interventional robots have great potential for use in minimally
invasive vascular surgeries in recent years due to their ability to reduce the occupational risk …

Development of a tactile sensing robot-assisted system for vascular interventional surgery

X Jin, S Guo, J Guo, P Shi, T Tamiya… - IEEE Sensors …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The challenge of vascular interventional surgery is that surgeons require to be exposed to X-
ray for a long time, operating guidewires and catheters to complete the treatment. To reduce …

Soft robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery and interventions: Advances and outlook

KW Kwok, H Wurdemann, A Arezzo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the emergence of soft robotics around two decades ago, research interest in the field
has escalated at a pace. It is fuelled by the industry's appreciation of the wide range of soft …

Magnetic control of a steerable guidewire under ultrasound guidance using mobile electromagnets

Z Yang, L Yang, M Zhang, Q Wang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Endovascular surgery has become a popular minimally invasive approach to diagnose and
treat various vascular diseases. However, manipulating conventional passive guidewires …

An MR-Safe endovascular robotic platform: Design, control, and ex-vivo evaluation

D Kundrat, G Dagnino, TMY Kwok… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of global death.
Endovascular interventions, in combination with advanced imaging technologies, are …

Shape tracking and feedback control of cardiac catheter using MRI-guided robotic platform—Validation with pulmonary vein isolation simulator in MRI

Z Dong, X Wang, G Fang, Z He, JDL Ho… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cardiac electrophysiology is an effective treatment for atrial fibrillation, in which a long,
steerable catheter is inserted into the heart chamber to conduct radio frequency ablation …

Design and evaluation of a haptic robot-assisted catheter operating system with collision protection function

P Shi, S Guo, L Zhang, X Jin, H Hirata… - IEEE Sensors …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In vascular interventional surgery, experienced physicians rely on proximal force sensing to
detect the collision and reduce vascular injury caused by surgical tools. However, in robot …

[HTML][HTML] Remote vascular interventional surgery robotics: A literature review

Y Zhao, Z Mei, X Luo, J Mao, Q Zhao… - Quantitative Imaging in …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Vascular interventional doctors are exposed to radiation hazards during surgery and endure
high work intensity. Remote vascular interventional surgery robotics is a hot research field …