SURESTEP: An Uncertainty-Aware Trajectory Optimization Framework to Enhance Visual Tool Tracking for Robust Surgical Automation

NU Shinde, ZY Chiu, F Richter, J Lim, Y Zhi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Inaccurate tool localization is one of the main reasons for failures in automating surgical
tasks. Imprecise robot kinematics and noisy observations caused by the poor visual acuity of …

From Decision to Action in Surgical Autonomy: Multi-Modal Large Language Models for Robot-Assisted Blood Suction

S Zargarzadeh, M Mirzaei, Y Ou, M Tavakoli - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has impacted research in robotics and
automation. While progress has been made in integrating LLMs into general robotics tasks …

[PDF][PDF] Autonomous Soft-Tissue Needle Steering Using Reinforcement Learning Guided by Human Input

Y Ou, M Tavakoli - Journal of Medical Robotics Research, 2024 - ece.ualberta.ca
Soft-tissue needle steering, where a deformable needle is inserted into the tissue to guide its
tip to a desired position, is a common minimally invasive surgery (MIS) procedure. The …