In recent years, tremendous progress has been made in surgical practice for example with
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). To overcome challenges coming from deported eye-to …

Purpose Real-time surgical tool tracking is a core component of the future intelligent
operating room (OR), because it is highly instrumental to analyze and understand the …

Estimating the 3-D pose of instruments is an important part of robotic minimally invasive
surgery for automation of basic procedures as well as providing safety features, such as …

We present a visual recognition system for fine-grained visual categorization. The system is
composed of a human and a machine working together and combines the complementary …

In the context of retinal microsurgery, visual tracking of instruments is a key component of
robotics assistance. The difficulty of the task and major reason why most existing strategies …

Tool tracking is an accepted capability for computer-aided surgical intervention which has
numerous applications, both in robotic and manual minimally-invasive procedures. In this …

The real-time localization of the guidewire endpoints is a stepping stone to computer-
assisted percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However, methods for multi-guidewire …

Recognizing surgical activities in endoscopic videos is of vital importance for developing
context-aware decision support in the operating room. In this work, we model each surgical …

Real-time visual tracking of a surgical instrument holds great potential for improving the
outcome of retinal microsurgery by enabling new possibilities for computer-aided techniques …

Dexterous manipulation of intraocular microrobotic devices has the potential to significantly
augment ophthalmic surgeons' capabilities. Microrobots can be employed for targeted drug …