Minimally invasive surgery, including laparoscopic and thoracoscopic procedures, benefits
patients in terms of improved postoperative outcomes and short recovery time. The …

Endomicroscopy is an emerging imaging modality, that facilitates the acquisition of in vivo, in
situ optical biopsies, assisting diagnostic and potentially therapeutic interventions. While …

In Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), tissue scanning with imaging probes is required for
subsurface visualisation to characterise the state of the tissue. However, scanning of large …

Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery can benefit from the automation of common,
repetitive or well-defined but ergonomically difficult tasks. One such task is the scanning of a …

Endoscopes navigate within the human body to observe anatomical structures with minimal
invasiveness. A major shortcoming of their use is their narrow field‐of‐view during …

Objective: Probe-based confocal endomicroscopy is an emerging high-magnification optical
imaging technique that provides in vivo and in situ cellular-level imaging for real-time …

There is a need for miniature optical-sectioning microscopes to enable in vivo interrogation
of tissues as a real-time and noninvasive alternative to gold-standard histopathology. Such …

The ability to extend the field of view of laparoscopy images can help the surgeons to obtain
a better understanding of the anatomical context. However, due to tissue deformation …

Background The purpose of this study was to develop an automated image analysis
algorithm to discriminate between head and neck cancer and nonneoplastic epithelium in …

In the last century, engineering advances have transformed the practice of surgery. Keyhole
surgical techniques offer a number of advantages over traditional open approaches …