As computer vision algorithms increase in capability, their applications in clinical systems
will become more pervasive. These applications include: diagnostics, such as colonoscopy …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

Surgical navigation technology provides minimally invasive surgery (MIS) with the relative
pose relationships amongst medical images, surgical instruments, and lesions. On the other …

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 …

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