A comparative review of hand-eye calibration techniques for vision guided robots

I Enebuse, M Foo, BSKK Ibrahim, H Ahmed… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hand-eye calibration enables proper perception of the environment in which a vision guided
robot operates. Additionally, it enables the mapping of the scene in the robots frame. Proper …

How molecular imaging will enable robotic precision surgery: the role of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and navigation

T Wendler, FWB van Leeuwen, N Navab… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Molecular imaging is one of the pillars of precision surgery. Its applications range from early
diagnostics to therapy planning, execution, and the accurate assessment of outcomes. In …

Towards robotic-assisted subretinal injection: A hybrid parallel–serial robot system design and preliminary evaluation

M Zhou, Q Yu, K Huang, S Mahov… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Subretinal injection is a delicate and complex microsurgery. The main surgical difficulties
come from the surgeon's hand tremor, dexterous motion, and insufficient visual feedback. In …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Automated tool detection with deep learning for monitoring kinematics and eye-hand coordination in microsurgery

J Koskinen, M Torkamani-Azar, A Hussein… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
In microsurgical procedures, surgeons use micro-instruments under high magnifications to
handle delicate tissues. These procedures require highly skilled attentional and motor …

Towards better surgical instrument segmentation in endoscopic vision: Multi-angle feature aggregation and contour supervision

F Qin, S Lin, Y Li, RA Bly, KS Moe… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and real-time surgical instrument segmentation is important in the endoscopic
vision of robot-assisted surgery, and significant challenges are posed by frequent instrument …

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 …

Hand-eye calibration made easy through a closed-form two-stage method

S Sarabandi, JM Porta, F Thomas - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An analysis of the existing hand-eye calibration methods reveals that most of them are far
from trivial. And, what is worse, their intrinsic complexity makes it difficult to elucidate under …