Robotic ultrasound imaging: State-of-the-art and future perspectives

Z Jiang, SE Salcudean, N Navab - Medical image analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
Ultrasound (US) is one of the most widely used modalities for clinical intervention and
diagnosis due to the merits of providing non-invasive, radiation-free, and real-time images …

Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery—Surgical robotics in the data age

T Haidegger, S Speidel, D Stoyanov… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Telesurgical robotics, as a technical solution for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery
(RAMIS), has become the first domain within medicosurgical robotics that achieved a true …

Image-based force estimation in medical applications: A review

AA Nazari, F Janabi-Sharifi, K Zareinia - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Minimally invasive robotic interventions have highlighted the need to develop efficient
techniques to measure forces applied to the soft tissues. Since the last decade, many …

Robotics in healthcare

D Kolpashchikov, O Gerget… - Handbook of Artificial …, 2022 - Springer
A robot is a programmed actuated mechanism with a degree of autonomy. Medical robots
came a long way since first prototypes based on industrial robots in the 1960s-70 s to …

Origins of surgical robotics: From space to the operating room

A Takács, DÁ Nagy, I Rudas… - Acta Polytechnica …, 2016 - real.mtak.hu
The rapid development of telerobotic systems led to novel applications beyond the nuclear
and industrial domains. Medical telerobotics enabled surgeons to perform medical …

Investigating the influence of dimensionality reduction on force estimation in robotic-assisted surgery using recurrent and convolutional networks

PV Sabique, G Pasupathy, S Ramachandran… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Large data computing is a research problem and a major challenge in order to successfully
mine, process, and evaluate massive datasets, as they represent a useful source of …

Fbg-based estimation of external forces along flexible instrument bodies

O Al-Ahmad, M Ourak, J Vlekken… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A variety of medical treatment and diagnostic procedures rely on flexible instruments such
as catheters and endoscopes to navigate through tortuous and soft anatomies like the …

Viscoelastic model based force control for soft tissue interaction and its application in physiological motion compensation

P Moreira, N Zemiti, C Liu, P Poignet - Computer methods and programs in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Controlling the interaction between robots and living soft tissues has become an important
issue as the number of robotic systems inside the operating room increases. Many …

Design and testing of ultrasound probe adapters for a robotic imaging platform

KL Amezcua, J Collier, M Lopez… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Medical imaging-based triage is a critical tool for emergency medicine in both civilian and
military settings. Ultrasound imaging can be used to rapidly identify free fluid in abdominal …

Kinetics analysis and adrc-based controller for a string-driven vascular intervention surgical robotic system

W Zhou, S Guo, J Guo, Z Chen, F Meng - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Vascular interventional surgery is a typical method for diagnosing and treating cardio-
cerebrovascular diseases. However, a surgeon is exposed to significant X-radiation …