Transformative potential of AI in healthcare: definitions, applications, and navigating the ethical landscape and public perspectives

M Bekbolatova, J Mayer, CW Ong, M Toma - Healthcare, 2024 - mdpi.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a crucial tool in healthcare with the primary aim of
improving patient outcomes and optimizing healthcare delivery. By harnessing machine …

Autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery for intestinal anastomosis

H Saeidi, JD Opfermann, M Kam, S Wei, S Léonard… - Science robotics, 2022 - science.org
Autonomous robotic surgery has the potential to provide efficacy, safety, and consistency
independent of individual surgeon's skill and experience. Autonomous anastomosis is a …

Evolution of a surgical system using deep learning in minimally invasive surgery

K Sone, S Tanimoto, Y Toyohara… - Biomedical …, 2023 - spandidos-publications.com
Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied in various fields due to the
development of new learning methods, such as deep learning, and the marked progress in …

[HTML][HTML] Laparoscopic and robot-assisted hepatic surgery: an historical review

A Shimizu, M Ito, AK Lefor - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hepatic surgery is a rapidly expanding component of abdominal surgery and is performed
for a wide range of indications. The introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 1987 …

Optical coherence tomography angiography of the intestine: how to prevent motion artifacts in open and laparoscopic surgery?

M Ryabkov, M Sizov, E Bederina, P Zarubenko… - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
(1) Introduction. The problem that limits the intraoperative use of OCTA for the intestinal
circulation diagnostics is the low informative value of OCTA images containing too many …

Deep point cloud landmark localization for fringe projection profilometry

S Wei, M Kam, Y Wang, JD Opfermann… - Journal of the Optical …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Point clouds have been widely used due to their information being richer than images.
Fringe projection profilometry (FPP) is one of the camera-based point cloud acquisition …

A confidence-based supervised-autonomous control strategy for robotic vaginal cuff closure

M Kam, H Saeidi, MH Hsieh, JU Kang… - … conference on robotics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous robotic suturing has the potential to improve surgery outcomes by leveraging
accuracy, repeatability, and consistency compared to manual operations. However …

Cutting-edge care: unleashing artificial intelligence's potential in gynecologic surgery

MC Leaf, K Musselman, KC Wang - Current Opinion in Obstetrics …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Several applications of AI and augmented reality are utilized in gynecologic surgery. AI's
potential use can be found in all phases of surgery: preoperatively, intra-operatively, and …

Automating 3D Surgical Suture Planning

V Ramakrishnan, J Isaac, H Jalan… - 2024 IEEE 20th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In surgical practice, precise and careful suture placement can reduce scarring and speed
healing. Surgeons rely on expertise to guide where they place suture needle entry and exit …

Roadmap to Autonomous Surgery--A Framework to Surgical Autonomy

A Singh - arxiv preprint arxiv:2206.10516, 2022 - arxiv.org
Robotic surgery has increased the domain of surgeries possible. Several examples of partial
surgical automation have been seen in the past decade. We break down the path of …