Integrating robot‐assisted ultrasound tracking and 3D needle shape prediction for real‐time tracking of the needle tip in needle steering procedures

B Konh, B Padasdao, Z Batsaikhan… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Needle insertions have been used in several minimally invasive procedures for
diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Real‐time position of the needle tip is an important …

Development of a cognitive robotic system for simple surgical tasks

R Muradore, P Fiorini, G Akgun… - International …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The introduction of robotic surgery within the operating rooms has significantly improved the
quality of many surgical procedures. Recently, the research on medical robotic systems …

Needle localization using gabor filtering in 2D ultrasound images

M Kaya, O Bebek - 2014 IEEE International Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the percutaneous needle procedures using ultrasound (US) imaging, the needle should
be detected precisely to avoid damage to the tissue and to get the samples from the …

3d shape visualization of curved needles in tissue from 2d ultrasound images using ransac

M Waine, C Rossa, R Sloboda… - … on Robotics and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces an automatic method to visualize 3D needle shapes for reliable
assessment of needle placement during needle insertion procedures. Based on partial …

Robust real-time needle tracking in 2-D ultrasound images using statistical filtering

K Mathiassen, D Dall'Alba, R Muradore… - … on Control Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Percutaneous image-guided tumor ablation is a minimally invasive surgical procedure for
the treatment of malignant tumors using a needle-shaped ablation probe. Automating the …

Needle tracking and deflection prediction for robot-assisted needle insertion using 2d ultrasound images

M Waine, C Rossa, R Sloboda, N Usmani… - Journal of Medical …, 2016 - World Scientific
In many types of percutaneous needle insertion surgeries, tissue deformation and needle
deflection can create significant difficulties for accurate needle placement. In this paper, we …

A cognitive robot control architecture for autonomous execution of surgical tasks

N Preda, F Ferraguti, G De Rossi, C Secchi… - Journal of Medical …, 2016 - World Scientific
The research on medical robotics is starting to address the autonomous execution of
surgical tasks, without effective intervention of humans apart from supervision and task …

Spatiotemporal analysis of speckle dynamics to track invisible needle in ultrasound sequences using convolutional neural networks: a phantom study

A Amiri Tehrani Zade, M Jalili Aziz, H Majedi… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Accurate needle placement into the target point is critical for ultrasound
interventions like biopsies and epidural injections. However, aligning the needle to the thin …

Real-time needle tip localization in 2D ultrasound images for robotic biopsies

M Kaya, E Senel, A Ahmad, O Orhan… - … on Advanced Robotics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, real-time needle tip tracking method using 2D ultrasound (US) images for
robotic biopsies is presented. In this method, the needle tip is estimated with the Gabor filter …

Gabor filter based localization of needles in ultrasound guided robotic interventions

M Kaya, O Bebek - … on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST) …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an entropy based parameter tuning method for needle segmentation,
and a probability map based needle tip estimation method using Gabor-based line filter. The …