Artificial intelligence and automation in endoscopy and surgery

F Chadebecq, LB Lovat, D Stoyanov - … Reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Modern endoscopy relies on digital technology, from high-resolution imaging sensors and
displays to electronics connecting configurable illumination and actuation systems for …

Accelerating surgical robotics research: A review of 10 years with the da vinci research kit

C D'Ettorre, A Mariani, A Stilli… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic-assisted surgery is now well established in clinical practice and has become the
gold-standard clinical treatment option for several clinical indications. The field of robotic …

Neural rendering for stereo 3d reconstruction of deformable tissues in robotic surgery

Y Wang, Y Long, SH Fan, Q Dou - International conference on medical …, 2022 - Springer
Reconstruction of the soft tissues in robotic surgery from endoscopic stereo videos is
important for many applications such as intra-operative navigation and image-guided robotic …

Concepts and trends in autonomy for robot-assisted surgery

P Fiorini, KY Goldberg, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surgical robots have been widely adopted with over 4000 robots being used in practice
daily. However, these are telerobots that are fully controlled by skilled human surgeons …

Endosurf: Neural surface reconstruction of deformable tissues with stereo endoscope videos

R Zha, X Cheng, H Li, M Harandi, Z Ge - International conference on …, 2023 - Springer
Reconstructing soft tissues from stereo endoscope videos is an essential prerequisite for
many medical applications. Previous methods struggle to produce high-quality geometry …

Surrol: An open-source reinforcement learning centered and dvrk compatible platform for surgical robot learning

J Xu, B Li, B Lu, YH Liu, Q Dou… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous surgical execution relieves tedious routines and surgeon's fatigue. Recent
learning-based methods, especially reinforcement learning (RL) based methods, achieve …

E-dssr: efficient dynamic surgical scene reconstruction with transformer-based stereoscopic depth perception

Y Long, Z Li, CH Yee, CF Ng, RH Taylor… - … Image Computing and …, 2021 - Springer
Reconstructing the scene of robotic surgery from the stereo endoscopic video is an
important and promising topic in surgical data science, which potentially supports many …

Bimanual regrasping for suture needles using reinforcement learning for rapid motion planning

ZY Chiu, F Richter, EK Funk… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Regrasping a suture needle is an important yet time-consuming process in suturing. To
bring efficiency into regrasping, prior work either designs a task-specific mechanism or …

Efficient deformable tissue reconstruction via orthogonal neural plane

C Yang, K Wang, Y Wang, Q Dou, X Yang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Intraoperative imaging techniques for reconstructing deformable tissues in vivo are pivotal
for advanced surgical systems. Existing methods either compromise on rendering quality or …

Safe reinforcement learning using formal verification for tissue retraction in autonomous robotic-assisted surgery

A Pore, D Corsi, E Marchesini… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a viable solution for automating repetitive surgical
subtasks due to its ability to learn complex behaviours in a dynamic environment. This task …