7 accepted papers
Robotic comanipulation provides a cost-effective solution to telesurgery when remote operation is not strictly necessary. Within the field of laparoscopic surgery, the comanip-ulation scenario is only recently being exploited commercially in the form of lightweight backdrivable systems. A passive wr…
Fetoscopy is a technically challenging surgery, due to the dynamic environment and low diameter endoscopes often resulting in a limited field of view. In this paper, we report on the design and operation of a robotic multimodal endoscope with optical ultrasound and white light stereo camera. The man…
During robot-assisted surgery, a Remote Center of Motion (RCM) is often implemented to constrain instrument motion through and about a specific point in space. Aligning and re-positioning this point during surgery is not trivial, as this is a defined, yet often non-visualised, point in space. When m…
At the moment, surgeons struggle curing a widespread eye disease known as retinal vein occlusion where clots obstruct the retinal vessels. Latter vascular disorder involves black spots in people's eyesight and lead eventually to blindness. A recent promising treatment consists in flushing a thrombol…
In collaborative human-robot navigation such as when driving semi-autonomous robotic wheelchairs, intuitive control of the mobile robot is only possible if the robot understands its user. This becomes especially important as users present varying levels of abilities and heterogeneous driving styles.…
Surgical interventions are increasingly executed minimal invasively. Surgeons insert instruments through tiny incisions in the body and pivot slender instruments to treat organs or tissue below the surface. While a blessing for patients, surgeons need to pay extra attention to overcome the fulcrum e…
Real-time tool segmentation from endoscopic videos is an essential part of many computer-assisted robotic surgical systems and of critical importance in robotic surgical data science. We propose two novel deep learning architectures for automatic segmentation of non-rigid surgical instruments. Both…