Robotic-assisted surgery is now well established in clinical practice and has become the
gold-standard clinical treatment option for several clinical indications. The field of robotic …

Augmented Reality (AR) holds the potential to revolutionize surgical procedures by allowing
surgeons to visualize critical structures within the patient's body. This is achieved through …

Although there have been many studies on the identification of elastic constants and
boundary conditions, it is still challenging to simultaneously estimate the unknown elastic …

In image-guided liver surgery, 3D-3D non-rigid registration methods play a crucial role in
estimating the map** between the preoperative model and the intraoperative surface …

Abstract Patient-specific Biomechanical Models (PBMs) can enhance computer assisted
surgical procedures with critical information. Although pre-operative data allow to …

Autonomous robotic surgery requires deliberation, ie the ability to plan and execute a task
adapting to uncer-tain and dynamic environments. Uncertainty in the surgical domain is …

Autonomy in robot-assisted surgery is essential to reduce surgeons' cognitive load and
eventually improve the overall surgical outcome. A key requirement for autonomy in a safety …

Robotic surgery is a rapidly develo** field that can greatly benefit from the automation of
surgical tasks. However, training techniques such as Reinforcement Learning (RL) require a …

Purpose A computer-assisted surgical system must provide up-to-date and accurate
information of the patient's anatomy during the procedure to improve clinical outcome. It is …

Chronic wounds, including diabetic ulcers, pressure ulcers, and ulcers secondary to venous
hypertension, affects more than 6.5 million patients and a yearly cost of more than $25 …