The evolution of robotic surgery: surgical and anaesthetic aspects

H Ashrafian, O Clancy, V Grover… - BJA: British Journal of …, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Robotic surgery pushes the frontiers of innovation in healthcare technology towards
improved clinical outcomes. We discuss the evolution to five generations of robotic surgical …

Optical techniques for 3D surface reconstruction in computer-assisted laparoscopic surgery

L Maier-Hein, P Mountney, A Bartoli, H Elhawary… - Medical image …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
One of the main challenges for computer-assisted surgery (CAS) is to determine the intra-
operative morphology and motion of soft-tissues. This information is prerequisite to the …

Review of surgical robotic systems for keyhole and endoscopic procedures: state of the art and perspectives

Y Chen, S Zhang, Z Wu, B Yang, Q Luo, K Xu - Frontiers of medicine, 2020‏ - Springer
Minimally invasive surgery, including laparoscopic and thoracoscopic procedures, benefits
patients in terms of improved postoperative outcomes and short recovery time. The …

Surgical vision

D Stoyanov - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2012‏ - Springer
Abstract The emergence of Minimal Access Surgery (MAS) as a paradigm in modern
healthcare treatment has created new challenges and opportunities for automated image …

Novel endoscopic optical diagnostic technologies in medical trial research: recent advancements and future prospects

Z He, P Wang, X Ye - BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2021‏ - Springer
Novel endoscopic biophotonic diagnostic technologies have the potential to non-invasively
detect the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the human body with subcellular resolution …

Online tracking and retargeting with applications to optical biopsy in gastrointestinal endoscopic examinations

M Ye, S Giannarou, A Meining, GZ Yang - Medical image analysis, 2016‏ - Elsevier
With recent advances in biophotonics, techniques such as narrow band imaging, confocal
laser endomicroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, and optical coherence tomography, can …

The learning affordances of augmented reality for museum exhibits on human health

C Matuk - Museums & Social Issues, 2016‏ - Taylor & Francis
Augmented reality (AR) is an emerging technology with the potential to transform learning.
By digitally adding or removing information from the physical world, AR creates a sense that …

Current and emerging robotic assisted intervention for NOTES

S Zuo, S Wang - Expert review of medical devices, 2016‏ - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Natural orifices transluminal endoscopic surgery (notes) procedures are limited
by a number of factors including closure of the internal entry point, loss of triangulation, and …

Endomicroscopy for computer and robot assisted intervention

S Zuo, GZ Yang - IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Endomicroscopy is a new technique that allows human tissue to be characterized in vivo
and in situ, circumventing the need for conventional biopsy and histology. Despite increased …

Real-time tracking of a diffuse reflectance spectroscopy probe used to aid histological validation of margin assessment in upper gastrointestinal cancer resection …

I Gkouzionis, S Nazarian, M Kawka… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) allows discrimination of tissue type. Its
application is limited by the inability to mark the scanned tissue and the lack of real-time …