Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide high-quality 3-D visualization of target
anatomy, surrounding tissue, and instrumentation, but there are significant challenges in …

The evolution of medical technologies—such as surgical devices and imaging techniques—
has transformed all aspects of surgery. A key area of development is robot-assisted …

As a relatively new specialty with a minimally invasive nature, the field of interventional
radiology is rapidly growing. Although the application of robotic systems in this field shows …

Robot-assisted technology is often used to perform endovascular catheterization surgeries,
which generally depend on the flexible operability and the accurate force feedback of a …

Interventional radiology and cardiology are rapidly growing areas of minimally invasive
surgery, covering multiple diagnostic and interventional procedures. Treatment via …

In robot-assisted vascular interventional surg-ery (VIS), surgeons often need to operate
outside the operating room to avoid exposure to X-ray. However, it greatly changes the …

Image guidance is a common methodology of minimally invasive procedures. Depending on
the type of intervention, various imaging modalities are available. Common imaging …

Deformable registration is a crucial step in many medical procedures such as image-guided
surgery and radiation therapy. Most recent learning-based methods focus on improving the …

Endovascular surgical robots (ESRs) are extensively researched because of their potential
to minimize surgeons' radiation exposure. However, during the surgical operation, it is …

When a robot completes end-effector tasks, internal error noises always exist. To resist
internal error noises of robots, a novel fuzzy recurrent neural network (FRNN) is proposed …