Fast multiple landmark localisation using a patch-based iterative network

Y Li, A Alansary, JJ Cerrolaza, B Khanal… - … Image Computing and …, 2018 - Springer
We propose a new Patch-based Iterative Network (PIN) for fast and accurate landmark
localisation in 3D medical volumes. PIN utilises a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to …

Branch aggregation attention network for robotic surgical instrument segmentation

W Shen, Y Wang, M Liu, J Wang, R Ding… - … on Medical Imaging, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surgical instrument segmentation is of great significance to robot-assisted surgery, but the
noise caused by reflection, water mist, and motion blur during the surgery as well as the …

Real-time vision-based surgical tool segmentation with robot kinematics prior

YH Su, K Huang, B Hannaford - 2018 International Symposium …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery combines the skills and techniques of highly-
trained surgeons with the robustness and precision of machines. Several advantages …

Surgical tool classification in laparoscopic videos using convolutional neural network

T Abdulbaki Alshirbaji, NA Jalal… - Current Directions in …, 2018 - degruyter.com
Laparoscopic videos are a very important source of information which is inherently available
in minimally invasive surgeries. Detecting surgical tools based on that videos have gained …

Simulation-to-real domain adaptation with teacher–student learning for endoscopic instrument segmentation

M Sahu, A Mukhopadhyay, S Zachow - International journal of computer …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose Segmentation of surgical instruments in endoscopic video streams is essential for
automated surgical scene understanding and process modeling. However, relying on fully …

Real‐time surgical instrument tracking in robot‐assisted surgery using multi‐domain convolutional neural network

L Qiu, C Li, H Ren - Healthcare technology letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Image‐based surgical instrument tracking in robot‐assisted surgery is an active and
challenging research area. Having a real‐time knowledge of surgical instrument location is …

Graph-based surgical instrument adaptive segmentation via domain-common knowledge

J Liu, X Guo, Y Yuan - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), aiming to adapt the model to an unseen domain
without annotations, has drawn sustained attention in surgical instrument segmentation …

A real-time multifunctional framework for guidewire morphological and positional analysis in interventional X-ray fluoroscopy

YJ Zhou, XL Xie, XH Zhou, SQ Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In endovascular and cardiovascular surgery, real-time guidewire morphological and
positional analysis is an important prerequisite for robot-assisted intervention, which can aid …

Fiducial-free 2D/3D registration for robot-assisted femoroplasty

C Gao, A Farvardin, RB Grupp… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Femoroplasty is a proposed alternative therapeutic method for preventing osteoporotic hip
fractures in the elderly. Previously developed navigation system for femoroplasty required …

EasyLabels: weak labels for scene segmentation in laparoscopic videos

F Fuentes-Hurtado, A Kadkhodamohammadi… - International journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose We present a different approach for annotating laparoscopic images for
segmentation in a weak fashion and experimentally prove that its accuracy when trained …