Robotic assistance for intraocular microsurgery: Challenges and perspectives

II Iordachita, MD De Smet, G Naus… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intraocular surgery, one of the most challenging discipline of microsurgery, requires sensory
and motor skills at the limits of human physiological capabilities combined with …

[HTML][HTML] Microsurgery robots: applications, design, and development

T Wang, H Li, T Pu, L Yang - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microsurgical techniques have been widely utilized in various surgical specialties, such as
ophthalmology, neurosurgery, and otolaryngology, which require intricate and precise …

Robotic retinal surgery

E Vander Poorten, CN Riviere, JJ Abbott… - Handbook of robotic and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Retinal surgery has long drawn the attention of engineers and clinicians who identified a
clear use case for robotics and assistive technology. In retinal surgery, precision is …

Robotic navigation autonomy for subretinal injection via intelligent real-time virtual ioct volume slicing

S Dehghani, M Sommersperger… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last decade, various robotic platforms have been introduced that could support
delicate retinal surgeries. Concurrently, to provide semantic understanding of the surgical …

Autonomous needle navigation in retinal microsurgery: Evaluation in ex vivo porcine eyes

P Zhang, JW Kim, P Gehlbach… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Important challenges in retinal microsurgery in-clude prolonged operating time, inadequate
force feedback, and poor depth perception due to a constrained top-down view of the …

Needle localization for robot-assisted subretinal injection based on deep learning

M Zhou, X Wang, J Weiss, A Eslami… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Subretinal injection is known to be a complicated task for ophthalmologists to perform, the
main sources of difficulties are the fine anatomy of the retina, insufficient visual feedback …

Automated instrument-tracking for 4D video-rate imaging of ophthalmic surgical maneuvers

EM Tang, MT El-Haddad, SN Patel… - Biomedical Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Intraoperative image-guidance provides enhanced feedback that facilitates surgical decision-
making in a wide variety of medical fields and is especially useful when haptic feedback is …

Theoretical error analysis of spotlight-based instrument localization for retinal surgery

M Zhou, F Hennerkes, J Liu, Z Jiang, T Wendler… - Robotica, 2023 - cambridge.org
Retinal surgery is widely considered to be a complicated and challenging task even for
specialists. Image-guided robot-assisted intervention is among the novel and promising …

6DOF needle pose estimation for robot-assisted vitreoretinal surgery

M Zhou, X Hao, A Eslami, KAI Huang, C Cai… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vitreoretinal (VR) surgery is typical microsurgery with delicate and complex surgical
procedures. The vision-based navigation for robot-assisted VR surgery has not been fully …

Automatic evaluation of graft orientation during Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty using intraoperative OCT

MB Muijzer, FG Heslinga, F Couwenberg… - Biomedical optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Correct Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK) graft orientation is
imperative for success of DMEK surgery, but intraoperative evaluation can be challenging …