Emad M. Boctor — accepted AI-conference papers

2023

Real-Time Intraoperative Surgical Guidance System in the da Vinci Surgical Robot Based on Transrectal Ultrasound/Photoacoustic Imaging With Photoacoustic Markers: An Ex Vivo Demonstration

Hyunwoo Song, Hamid Moradi, Bai-Chuan Jiang, Keshuai Xu, Yixuan Wu, Russell H. Taylor +4

RA-L 2023

This paper introduces the first integrated real-time intraoperative surgical guidance system, in which an endoscope camera of da Vinci surgical robot and a transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) transducer are co-registered using photoacoustic markers that are detected in both fluorescence (FL) and photoacou

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2016

A new robotic ultrasound system for tracking a catheter with an active piezoelectric element

Qianli Ma, Joshua D. Davis, Alexis Cheng, Younsu Kim, Gregory S. Chirikjian, Emad M. Boctor

IROS 2016poster

Robotic-assisted catheter insertion is becoming increasingly popular due to its potential applications including cardiac catheterization. Typically, catheters are tracked during insertion procedures to verify the location of the tip relative to anatomy or features of interest. To this end, many cath…

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