From teleoperation to autonomous robot-assisted microsurgery: A survey

D Zhang, W Si, W Fan, Y Guan, C Yang - Machine Intelligence Research, 2022 - Springer
Robot-assisted microsurgery (RAMS) has many benefits compared to traditional
microsurgery. Microsurgical platforms with advanced control strategies, high-quality micro …

[PDF][PDF] The Raven open surgical robotic platforms: A review and prospect

Y Li, B Hannaford, J Rosen - Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, 2019 - acta.uni-obuda.hu
The Raven I and the Raven II surgical robots, as open research platforms, have been
serving the robotic surgery research community for ten years. The paper 1) briefly presents …

Autonomous tissue scanning under free-form motion for intraoperative tissue characterisation

J Zhan, J Cartucho, S Giannarou - 2020 IEEE international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Autonomous scanning for endomicroscopic mosaicing and 3D fusion

L Zhang, M Ye, P Giataganas… - … on Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Hybrid robot-assisted frameworks for endomicroscopy scanning in retinal surgeries

Z Li, M Shahbazi, N Patel, E O'Sullivan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-resolution real-time intraocular imaging of retina at the cellular level is very challenging
due to the vulnerable and confined space within the eyeball as well as the limited availability …

A framework for sensorless tissue motion tracking in robotic endomicroscopy scanning

P Triantafyllou, P Wisanuvej… - … on robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in probe-based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (pCLE) enable real-time,
in situ and in vivo tissue assessment at the micro scale. The limited field-of-view offered by …

AI in Surgical Robotics

S Tukra, N Lidströmer, H Ashrafian… - Artificial Intelligence in …, 2021 - Springer
The future of surgery is tightly knit with the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and its
thorough involvement in surgical robotics. Robotics long ago became an integral part of the …

Raven: Open surgical robotic platforms

Y Li, B Hannaford, J Rosen - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.11747, 2019 - arxiv.org
The Raven I and the Raven II surgical robots, as open research platforms, have been
serving the robotic surgery research community for ten years. The paper 1) briefly presents …

A novel semi-autonomous control framework for retina confocal endomicroscopy scanning

Z Li, M Shahbazi, N Patel, E O'Sullivan… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel semi-autonomous control framework is presented for enabling probe-
based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) scan of the retinal tissue. With pCLE, retinal …

Complementary Situational Awareness for an Intelligent Telerobotic Surgical Assistant System

P Chalasani - 2018 - jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
Robotic surgical systems have contributed greatly to the advancement of Minimally Invasive
Surgeries (MIS). More specifically, telesurgical robots have provided enhanced dexterity to …