Continuum robots provide inherent structural compliance with high dexterity to access the
surgical target sites along tortuous anatomical paths under constrained environments and …

This article establishes a comprehensive review of all the different methods proposed by the
literature concerning augmented reality in intra-abdominal minimally invasive surgery (also …

We present a survey of recent work on robot manipulation and sensing of deformable
objects, a field with relevant applications in diverse industries such as medicine (eg surgical …

The invention relates to a correlated set for minimal invasive surgery comprising a surgical
instrument and a pattern generating member, a surgical system, a training kit, a method of …

Embodiments disclose a real-time surgery method and apparatus for displaying a
stereoscopic augmented view of a patient from a static or dynamic viewpoint of the surgeon …

Upon publication almost 15 years ago, the first edition almost instantly became a trusted
reference, setting the stage for the coming decade, in which the explosion in research and …

Pre-operative imaging has been used earlier to guide traditional surgical navigation
systems. There has been a lot of effort in the last decade to integrate augmented reality into …

Contemporary endoscopic simultaneous localization and map** (SLAM) methods
accurately compute endoscope poses; however, they only provide a sparse 3-D …

Colorectal cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide and the second
leading cause in the United States. The risk of colorectal cancer can be mitigated by the …

In recent years, digital endoscopy has established as key technology for medical screenings
and minimally invasive surgery. Since then, various research communities with manifold …