C Shi, X Luo, P Qi, T Li, S Song… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuum robots provide inherent structural compliance with high dexterity to access the surgical target sites along tortuous anatomical paths under constrained environments and …
Object tracking is a key enabling technology in the context of computer-assisted medical interventions. Allowing the continuous localization of medical instruments and patient …
D Recasens, J Lamarca, JM Fácil… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Estimating a scene reconstruction and the camera motion from in-body videos is challenging due to several factors, eg the deformation of in-body cavities or the lack of texture. In this …
This work aims to* predict* the* 3D* coordinates of the* point* of* interest*(POI) on* the surface of beating heart in dynamic minimally invasive surgery, which can improve the …
One of the main challenges for computer-assisted surgery (CAS) is to determine the intra- operative morphology and motion of soft-tissues. This information is prerequisite to the …
Contemporary endoscopic simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods accurately compute endoscope poses; however, they only provide a sparse 3-D …
In recent years, digital endoscopy has established as key technology for medical screenings and minimally invasive surgery. Since then, various research communities with manifold …
J Lamarca, S Parashar, A Bartoli… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms perform robustly when observing rigid scenes; however, they fail when the observed scene deforms, for …
Abstract 3D reconstruction of deformable (or non‐rigid) scenes from a set of monocular 2D image observations is a long‐standing and actively researched area of computer vision and …