Veronica Penza — accepted AI-conference papers

2023

Augmented Reality Navigation in Robot-Assisted Surgery with a Teleoperated Robotic Endoscope

Veronica Penza, Alberto Neri, Maria Koskinopoulou, Enrico Turco, Domenico Soriero, Stefano Scabini +2

IROS 2023poster

Augmented reality (AR) is considered one of the most promising solutions for safer procedures in several surgical specialities. Fusing patient-specific pre-operative information, typically 3D models extracted from CT scans or MRI, with real-time surgical images allows the surgeon to have detailed in…

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2023

Dual Robot Collaborative System for Autonomous Venous Access Based on Ultrasound and Bioimpedance Sensing Technology

Maria Koskinopoulou, Alperen Acemoglu, Veronica Penza, Leonardo S. Mattos

ICRA 2023poster

Accurate needle insertion is an important task in many medical procedures. This paper studies the case of an autonomous needle insertion system for central venous access, which is a risky and challenging procedure involving the simultaneous manipulation of an ultrasound probe and of a catheterizatio…

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2021

Towards a Compact Vision-based Auto-Focusing System for Endoscopic Laser Surgery

Andre Geraldes, Veronica Penza, Leonardo S. Mattos

IROS 2021poster

Endoscopic laser tools have been recently proposed in order to overcome the limitations of state-of-the-art laser tools, by integrating fiber-coupled lasers into flexible endoscopic systems. One of the main challenges in designing such endoscopic tools consists in the focusing of the laser, that req…

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2019

Hybrid Visual Servoing for Autonomous Robotic Laser Tattoo Removal

Veronica Penza, Damiano Salerno, Alperen Acemoglu, Jesús Ortiz, Leonardo S. Mattos

IROS 2019poster

Laser tattoo removal is a standard non-invasive method for removing color pigments on the skin. Increasing number of tattooed people who want to remove their tattoo has driven the medical laser market to develop new technologies for painless, scar-free and complete tattoo removal. However, manual us…

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