A novel cable-driven soft robot for surgery

R Li, F Chen, W Yu, T Igarash, X Shu, L **e - Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong …, 2024‏ - Springer
Robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RARP) is widely used to treat prostate
cancer. The rigid instruments primarily used in RARP cannot overcome the problem of blind …

Shape sensing of a soft robot using fiber bragg gratings for single-port transvesical radical prostatectomy

Z Liu, R Li, Y Cao, F Feng, L **e - 2022 IEEE international …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy is a common treatment for prostate
cancer. Traditional rigid instruments, on the other hand, have operating blind areas and lack …

Importance of hydrostatic pressure and irrigation for hemostasis in neuroendoscopic surgery

T Ishikawa, K Takeuchi, T Yamamoto… - Neurologia medico …, 2021‏ - jstage.jst.go.jp
Recently neurosurgical operations have been carried out with water irrigation such as
endoscopic third ventriculostomy and tumor resections in ventricles. Water irrigation is one …

[HTML][HTML] Perioperative continuous body weight measurements with load cells under the bed legs in patients undergoing abdominal surgery

K Son, K Tarao, Y Hateruma… - European Journal of …, 2023‏ - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Both excessive positive fluid balance and body weight increase after
surgery are risk factors for poor postoperative outcomes. The use in clinical practice and the …

Development of Integrated Leader Controller for Forceps/Retractor Manipulation in Single-Port Water-Filled Laparo-Endoscopic Surgery

K Kawamura, Y Shimura - Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 2022‏ - jstage.jst.go.jp
Single-port water-filled laparo-endoscopic surgery (WaFLES) is a surgical procedure used
for treatment in an environment filled with isotonic water in the abdominal cavity under a …

Physiological and biochemical responses to continuous saline irrigation inside the abdominal cavity in anesthetized pigs

T Ishii, T Igarashi, Y Naya, T Aoe… - … of Laparoendoscopic & …, 2016‏ - liebertpub.com
Background: Water-filled laparoendoscopic surgery (WaFLES) has been proposed as a
novel surgical system achieving a wide surgical field in the intra-and extraperitoneal space …

**面と立体を可逆的に変化する構造を利用した水中腹腔鏡手術用スペーサの試作

佐野麻理恵, 鈴木啓介, 角江崇, 石井琢郎, 五十嵐辰男… - 生体医工学, 2016‏ - jstage.jst.go.jp
抄録 Surgery under endoscopic vision has advantages such as lower invasiveness, less
bleeding, and less pain for patients, providing expanded vision for precise operation …

Feature Extraction from Non-Linear Scale Spaces Using the Guided Filter for Fast Robust Organ Tracking in Water-Filled Laparoendoscopic Surgery

M KONTTO, R NAKAMURA - Medical Imaging Technology, 2020‏ - jstage.jst.go.jp
In this paper, a local feature extraction method based on fast image guided filtering for organ
tracking in Water-filled Laparoendoscopic Surgery (WaFLES) is presented. Robust feature …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of Hemostasis Procedures through Machine Learning of Endoscopic Images towards Automatic Surgery.

Y Matsunaga, R Nakamura - Sensors & Materials, 2020‏ - sensors.myu-group.co.jp
Laparoscopic surgery reduces patient invasiveness; however, the burden on the surgeons is
high because such surgery requires them to have skills higher than those for open …

A comparative study of the acute and long-term prognosis for mouse models undergoing laparoscopic surgery under continuous intra-abdominal perfusion with either …

H **, T Ishii, S Isono, T Igarashi, T Aoe - Cogent Medicine, 2018‏ - Taylor & Francis
Background: We developed a water-filled laparoendoscopic surgery (WaFLES) method
using an isotonic irrigant like physiological saline instead of carbon dioxide (CO2) …