Robotic wireless capsule endoscopy: recent advances and upcoming technologies

Q Cao, R Deng, Y Pan, R Liu, Y Chen, G Gong… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) offers a non-invasive evaluation of the digestive system,
eliminating the need for sedation and the risks associated with conventional endoscopic …

Rethinking exemplars for continual semantic segmentation in endoscopy scenes: Entropy-based mini-batch pseudo-replay

G Wang, L Bai, Y Wu, T Chen, H Ren - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Endoscopy is a widely used technique for the early detection of diseases or robotic-assisted
minimally invasive surgery (RMIS). Numerous deep learning (DL)-based research works …

Localization of passively guided capsule endoscopes—A review

S Zeising, AS Thalmayer, M Lübke… - IEEE Sensors …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional endoscopy is conducted stationary in the hospital and requires sedation of the
patient. Contrary, capsule endoscopy (CE) requires no sedation, and the patients are …

Evaluation of different control strategies for trajectory following of a robotic capsule endoscope under rotating magnetic actuation

Y Xu, K Li, Z Zhao, MQH Meng - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is limited in the long examination time and low
flexibility since the capsule is passively moved by the natural peristalsis. Efforts have been …

External and internal sensor fusion based localization strategy for 6-DOF pose estimation of a magnetic capsule robot

K Li, Y Xu, Z Zhao, MQH Meng - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a novel localization approach for active capsule endoscopy that, for
the first time, combines external magnetic field sensing and internal inertial sensing to …

Autonomous magnetic navigation framework for active wireless capsule endoscopy inspired by conventional colonoscopy procedures

Y Xu, K Li, Z Zhao, MQH Meng - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, simultaneous magnetic actuation and localization (SMAL) for active wireless
capsule endoscopy (WCE) has been intensively studied to improve the efficiency and …

Magnetic actuation systems and magnetic robots for gastrointestinal examination and treatment

H Sun, J Liu, Q Wang - Chinese Journal of Electrical …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic actuation technology (MAT) provides novel diagnostic tools for the early screening
and treatment of digestive cancers, which have high morbidity and mortality rates worldwide …

Damage resilience of manufactured and biological actuators

R Perrier, L Tadrist, JM Linares - Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Designing resilient actuators is a challenge for industry, in part because an index for
resilience has yet to be established. In this work, several definitions of resilience are …

Multi-objective design optimization of electromagnetic coil for effective actuation of magnetic endocapsule devices

B Nallabothula, SN Unni - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2024 - Elsevier
Magnetic actuation with cylindrical electromagnetic coils is an upcoming technology due to
its straightforward design and adaptability for magnetic endocapsule control in the …

Leveraging Three Orthogonal Magnetic Field Sources for Localization of A Magnetic Capsule Endoscope with Unique Solution

K Li, Y Xu, Z Zhao, MQH Meng - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel localization method for magnetically actuated capsule
endoscopy that uses three orthogonal magnetic field sources external to the capsule, and …