Shape sensing techniques for continuum robots in minimally invasive surgery: A survey

C Shi, X Luo, P Qi, T Li, S Song… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuum robots provide inherent structural compliance with high dexterity to access the
surgical target sites along tortuous anatomical paths under constrained environments and …

Challenges of continuum robots in clinical context: a review

T da Veiga, JH Chandler, P Lloyd… - Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
With the maturity of surgical robotic systems based on traditional rigid-link principles, the rate
of progress slowed as limits of size and controllable degrees of freedom were reached …

Application of artificial intelligence in surgery

XY Zhou, Y Guo, M Shen, GZ Yang - Frontiers of medicine, 2020 - Springer
Artificial intelligence (AI) is gradually changing the practice of surgery with technological
advancements in imaging, navigation, and robotic intervention. In this article, we review the …

[HTML][HTML] A survey of catheter tracking concepts and methodologies

A Ramadani, M Bui, T Wendler, H Schunkert… - Medical image …, 2022 - Elsevier
Catheter tracking has become an integral part of interventional radiology. Over the last
decades, researchers have significantly contributed to theoretical and technical catheter …

Fiber optical shape sensing of flexible instruments for endovascular navigation

S Jäckle, T Eixmann, H Schulz-Hildebrandt… - International journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose Endovascular aortic repair procedures are currently conducted with 2D fluoroscopy
imaging. Tracking systems based on fiber Bragg gratings are an emerging technology for …

Development of a distal tri-axial force sensor for minimally invasive surgical palpation

Z Tang, S Wang, M Li, C Shi - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current study highlights the development of a novel and high-accuracy Fiber Bragg
Grating (FBG)-enabled tri-axial distal force sensor for minimally invasive surgical palpation …

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 …

A high-precision and miniature fiber Bragg grating-based force sensor for tissue palpation during minimally invasive surgery

C Lv, S Wang, C Shi - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2020 - Springer
This paper presents a novel Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG)-based palpation force sensor to
explore tissue abnormalities during minimally invasive surgery. The proposed sensor design …

Laser-profiled continuum robot with integrated tension sensing for simultaneous shape and tip force estimation

A Gao, N Liu, M Shen, M EMK Abdelaziz… - Soft robotics, 2020 - liebertpub.com
The development of miniaturized continuum robots has a wide range of applications in
minimally invasive endoluminal interventions. To navigate inside tortuous lumens without …

Shape reconstruction processes for interventional application devices: State of the art, progress, and future directions

SK Sahu, C Sozer, B Rosa, I Tamadon… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Soft and continuum robots are transforming medical interventions thanks to their flexibility,
miniaturization, and multidirectional movement abilities. Although flexibility enables …