Continuum robots provide inherent structural compliance with high dexterity to access the
surgical target sites along tortuous anatomical paths under constrained environments and …

Endovascular techniques have been embraced as a minimally-invasive treatment approach
within different disciplines of interventional radiology and cardiology. The current practice of …

Catheter tracking has become an integral part of interventional radiology. Over the last
decades, researchers have significantly contributed to theoretical and technical catheter …

State estimation from measured data is crucial for robotic applications as autonomous
systems rely on sensors to capture the motion and localize in the 3D world. Among sensors …

Soft and continuum robots are transforming medical interventions thanks to their flexibility,
miniaturization, and multidirectional movement abilities. Although flexibility enables …

Purpose: Biplane angiography systems provide time resolved 2D fluoroscopic images from
two different angles, which can be used for the positioning of interventional devices such as …

Robust tracking of interventional tools, such as guidewires and catheters, in X-ray
fluoroscopic video sequences has a wide range of clinical applications for endovascular …

Background Minimally invasive procedures usually require navigating a microcatheter and
guidewire through endoluminal structures such as blood vessels and airways to sites of the …

Electrophysiology (EP) studies and catheter ablation have become important treatment
options for several types of cardiac arrhythmias. We present a novel image-based approach …

Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) has been gaining popularity over open repair of
abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) in the recent years. This paper describes a distortion …