Heart motion compensation is a key issue in medical robotics due to the benefits that
minimally invasive beating heart surgery offers over traditional cardiac surgery. Although …

Off-pump totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting is a milestone for cardiac
surgery, and still a technical challenge. Indeed, the fast and complex cardiac motion makes …

The lack of physiological motion compensation is a major problem in robotic-assisted
cardiac surgery. Since the heart is beating while the surgeon carried out the procedure …

Minimally invasive beating-heart surgery offers substantial benefits for the patient, compared
to conventional open surgery. Nevertheless, the motion of the heart poses increased …

The past decades have witnessed the notable development of minimally invasive surgery
(MIS). The benefits of this modality of surgery for patients are numerous, shortening …

The design of physiological motion compensation systems for robotic-assisted cardiac
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is a challenging research topic. In this domain, vision …

Minimally invasive cardiac surgery offers important benefits for the patient but it also
imposes several challenges for the surgeon. Robotic assistance has been proposed to …

Performing surgery on the beating heart has significant advantages compared to
cardiopulmonary bypass. However, when performed directly, it is very demanding for the …

Deformation modeling of cardiac muscle is an important issue in the field of cardiac analysis.
For this reason, many approaches have been developed to best estimate the cardiac muscle …

Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery outperforms traditional on-pump
surgery because the assisted robotic tools can alleviate the relative motion between the …