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 …

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 …

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 …

Autonomous tissue scanning under free-form motion for intraoperative tissue characterisation

J Zhan, J Cartucho, S Giannarou - 2020 IEEE international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), tissue scanning with imaging probes is required for
subsurface visualisation to characterise the state of the tissue. However, scanning of large …

Online viewpoint optimization method for high-accuracy intraoperative optical measurement in orthopedic surgeries: An active navigation approach

J Han, M Luo, Y Qin - Measurement, 2023 - Elsevier
In robotic orthopedic surgeries, the optical tracking system (OTS) is an essential technology
to obtain the high-accuracy relative pose between the patient and surgical instrument via …

Development of an intra-operative active navigation system for robot-assisted surgery

Y Meng, Y You, P Geng, Z Song… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical tracking system (OTS), an essential component of robot-assisted surgery, measures
the position and orientation of the surgical tools during surgery operations. OTS has proven …

Real-time optimization-based tracking method for active optical navigation in orthopedic surgeries: An experimental study

J Han, M Luo, Y You, Y Qin - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical tracking system (OTS) plays a significant role in orthopedic surgeries to track the
relative position and orientation between the surgical tool and the patient's lesion via …

Full-Perception Robotic Surgery Environment with Anti-Occlusion Global–Local Joint Positioning

H Wang, T Liu, J Chen, C Fan, Y Qin, J Han - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The robotic surgery environment represents a typical scenario of human–robot cooperation.
In such a scenario, individuals, robots, and medical devices move relative to each other …