Magnetically actuated continuum medical robots: A review

Z Yang, H Yang, Y Cao, Y Cui… - Advanced intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The magnetic field has unique advantages in manipulating miniature robots working inside
the human body, such as high transparency to biological tissue and good controllability for …

Motor-free telerobotic endomicroscopy for steerable and programmable imaging in complex curved and localized areas

S Yuan, C Xu, B Cui, T Zhang, B Liang, W Yuan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Intraluminal epithelial abnormalities, potential precursors to significant conditions like
cancer, necessitate early detection for improved prognosis. We present a motor-free …

Towards semi-autonomous colon screening using an electromagnetically actuated soft-tethered colonoscope based on visual servo control

Y Li, WY Ng, W Li, Y Huang, H Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Conventional colonoscopy using a flexible colonoscope remains two major
limitations, including patient discomfort and difficult manipulations for surgeons. Robotic …

Autonomous intelligent navigation for flexible endoscopy using monocular depth guidance and 3-D shape planning

Y Lu, R Wei, B Li, W Chen, J Zhou… - … on robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advancements toward perception and decision-making of flexible endoscopes have
shown great potential in computer-aided surgical interventions. However, owing to modeling …

A Simultaneous Polyp and Lumen Detection Framework Towards Autonomous Robotic Colonoscopy

WY Ng, Y Li, T Pan, Y Sun, Q Dou… - … on Medical Robotics …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Colorectal Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases with a high incidence and mortality
worldwide. Robotic colonoscopes have been extensively developed to provide alternative …

Multistage adaptive control strategy based on image contour data for autonomous endoscope navigation

M Li, B Wang, J Yang, J Cao, C You, Y Sun… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
The physician burnout, poor ergonomics are hardly conducive to the sustainability and high
quality of colonoscopy. In order to reduce doctors' workload and improve patients' …

Multicamera 3d viewpoint adjustment for robotic surgery via deep reinforcement learning

YH Su, K Huang, B Hannaford - Journal of Medical Robotics …, 2021 - World Scientific
While robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) procedures afford a variety of
benefits over open surgery and manual laparoscopic operations (including increased tool …

Autonomous intraluminal navigation of a soft robot using deep-learning-based visual servoing

JF Lazo, CF Lai, S Moccia, B Rosa… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Navigation inside luminal organs is an arduous task that requires non-intuitive coordination
between the movement of the operator's hand and the information obtained from the …

A lumen-adapted navigation scheme with spatial awareness from monocular vision for autonomous robotic endoscopy

T Yang, Y Yang, P Wang, Y Cao, Z Yang… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Lumen is a common anatomical condition in endoscopic therapy or diagnostics. The
navigation of autonomous robotic endoscopy usually involves vision techniques such as …

Closed-loop robust control of robotic flexible endoscopy with neural network-based lumen segmentation

Y Guo, X Wei, Z Deng, X Zheng, B He… - … Signal Processing and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate positioning of the flexible endoscope during clinical procedures is critical for the
visualization and success of surgical interventions. However, manual operation of the …