Recent technological advances in surgery have resulted in the development of a range of
new techniques that have reduced patient trauma, shortened hospitalization, and improved …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide high-quality 3-D visualization of target
anatomy, surrounding tissue, and instrumentation, but there are significant challenges in …

Robot-assisted surgeries have been integrated and leading to a paradigm shift in surgical
fields. With the emergence of Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), especially Natural Orifice …

Background Current robotic systems have limitations for single‐port surgery (SPS) because
the instruments are large, the arms collide and the field of vision requires manual …

Semantic segmentation of organs and tissue types is an important sub-problem in image
based scene understanding for laparoscopic surgery and is a prerequisite for context-aware …

Semantic segmentation of anatomical structures in laparoscopic videos is a crucial task to
enable the development of new computer-assisted systems that can assist surgeons during …

Background Central venous catheterization is a procedure in which a doctor inserts a
catheter into a patient's vein for transfusions. Risks of this procedure include bleeding from …

Background The recent development of open magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has
provided an opportunity for the next stage of image-guided surgical and interventional …

Three-dimensional ultrasound can be an effective imaging modality for image-guided
interventions since it enables visualization of both the instruments and the tissue. For robotic …

Background Robotic end‐effectors for single port endoscopic surgery (SPS) require a
manual change of vision field that slows surgery and increases the degrees of freedom …