Increased demand for less invasive procedures has accelerated the adoption of Intraluminal
Procedures (IP) and Endovascular Interventions (EI) performed through body lumens and …

Purpose In the context of minimally invasive neurosurgery, steerable needles such as the
one developed within the Horizon2020-funded EDEN2020 project (Frasson et al. in Proc …

Objective: This paper presentsa safe and effective keyhole neurosurgery intra-operative
planning framework for flexible neurosurgical robots. The framework is intended to support …

Automatic surgical path planning of the passive flexible tool encounters a prohibitive
challenge, typically in endovascular surgery (ES). The key problem is that unstructured …

Purpose Minimally invasive surgery is often built upon a time-consuming preoperative step
consisting of segmentation and trajectory planning. At the temporal bone, a complete …

Targeted drug delivery in the brain is instrumental in the treatment of lethal brain diseases,
such as glioblastoma multiforme, the most aggressive primary central nervous system …

In the field of minimally invasive interventional therapy, the related research on the soft
tissue puncture robot and its technology based on the flexible steerable needle as a …

Introduction: Needle-based neurosurgical procedures require high accuracy in catheter
positioning to achieve high clinical efficacy. Significant challenges for achieving accurate …

Medical image processing has proven to be effective and feasible for assisting oncologists
in diagnosing lung, thyroid, and other cancers, especially at early stage. However, there is …

Purpose Accurate estimation of the position and orientation (pose) of surgical instruments is
crucial for delicate minimally invasive temporal bone surgery. Current techniques lack in …