3 accepted papers
(Semi-)autonomous robotic assistance in minimally invasive surgery has the potential to alleviate surgical staff shortage and decrease the workload of medical professionals. These robots must execute complex tasks within unpredictable and unstructured environments encountered during surgery. Althoug
Recent advances in medical technology have produced a number of flexible instruments that are capable of traversing non-linear paths. This is of special interest in the field of neurosurgery. However, the non-rigid instruments have the disadvantage that path planning becomes increasingly difficult.…
The semantic segmentation of surgical scenes is a prerequisite for task automation in robot assisted interventions. We propose LapSeg3D, a novel DNN-based approach for the voxel-wise annotation of point clouds representing surgical scenes. As the manual annotation of training data is highly time con…