Object tracking is a key enabling technology in the context of computer-assisted medical
interventions. Allowing the continuous localization of medical instruments and patient …

Purpose This scoping review covers needle visualization and localization techniques in
ultrasound, where localization-based approaches mostly aim to compute the needle shaft …

Automatic surgical gesture segmentation and recognition can provide useful feedback for
surgical training in robotic surgery. Most prior work in this field relies on the robot's kinematic …

Ultrasound guidance is becoming standard practice for needle‐based interventions in
anaesthetic practice, such as vascular access and peripheral nerve blocks. However …

Ultrasound is well suited for guiding many minimally invasive procedures, but its use is often
precluded by the poor visibility of medical devices. When devices are not visible, they can …

Purpose: Accurate and efficient guidance of needles to procedural targets is critically
important during percutaneous interventional procedures. Ultrasound imaging is widely …

Segmentation of needles in ultrasound images remains a challenging problem. In this
paper, we introduce a machine learning-based method for needle segmentation in 2D beam …

Image guidance plays a central role in minimally invasive fetal surgery such as
photocoagulation of inter-twin placental anastomosing vessels to treat twin-to-twin …

Purpose: Instrumented ultrasonic tracking provides needle localisation during ultrasound-
guided minimally invasive percutaneous procedures. Here, a post-processing framework …

Accurate identification of the needle tip is a key challenge with ultrasound-guided
percutaneous interventions in regional anaesthesia, foetal surgery and cardiovascular …