Concepts and trends in autonomy for robot-assisted surgery

P Fiorini, KY Goldberg, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surgical robots have been widely adopted with over 4000 robots being used in practice
daily. However, these are telerobots that are fully controlled by skilled human surgeons …

Full-coverage path planning and stable interaction control for automated robotic breast ultrasound scanning

Z Wang, B Zhao, P Zhang, L Yao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound examination is widely used for diagnosis of breast cancer, which requires a full-
coverage scan of the whole organ and stable probe–breast interaction for high-quality …

Sim-to-real surgical robot learning and autonomous planning for internal tissue points manipulation using reinforcement learning

Y Ou, M Tavakoli - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Indirect simultaneous positioning (ISP), where internal tissue points are placed at desired
locations indirectly through the manipulation of boundary points, is a type of subtask …

Autonomous robotic system for breast biopsy with deformation compensation

S Ferrari, E Tagliabue, BM Maris… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image-guided biopsy is the most common technique for breast cancer diagnosis. Although
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has the highest sensitivity in breast lesion detection …

Research on adaptive fuzzy impedance control of human-massage robot interaction based on Kelvin-Voigt modeling

X Zhang, J Zhang, G **ong, Y Gao, Y Feng - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the deformable surface and unknown biomechanical properties of human skin tissue,
it brings a large impact on the contact position and force control of robotic massage. In this …

Autonomous path planning and stabilizing force interaction control for robotic massage in unknown environment

X Zhang, G **ong, P Yin, Y Gao, Y Feng - Industrial Robot: the …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose To ensure the motion attitude and stable contact force of massage robot working on
unknown human tissue environment, this study aims to propose a robotic system for …

Water immersion ultrasound can improve the repeatability of ultrasonic measurement of dorsalis pedis artery diameter and hemodynamic parameters

Z Zhang, Y Xu, Z Hao, H Wang - Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971-), 2024 - Springer
Objective In comparing the repeatability of the internal diameter and hemodynamic
parameters of the dorsalis pedis artery measured by immersion ultrasound and contact …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of FEA-based breast deformation simulation using an artificial neural network

K Wang, T Kesavadas - Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and objectives: Imaging of breast tumors is a difficult problem because tumors
shift when patients change their positions. In addition, the images taken at the diagnostic …

Patient Specific Tissue Emulating Phantoms for Image-guided Intervention Applications

K Merrell - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Patient specific organ and tissue mimicking phantoms are used routinely to develop and
assess new image-guided intervention tools and techniques in laboratory settings, enabling …

[PDF][PDF] 3D Modeling of Tissue Deformation for Ultrasound Simulation

B Hermosilla Campos - 2024 - shaifaliparashar.github.io
Ultrasound imaging is widely used in the clinical practice mainly due to its real-time and non-
invasive capabilities. The advancement of ultrasound technology relies heavily on robust …