Robotic-assisted surgery is now well established in clinical practice and has become the
gold-standard clinical treatment option for several clinical indications. The field of robotic …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is gradually changing the practice of surgery with technological
advancements in imaging, navigation, and robotic intervention. In this article, we review the …

Real-time instrument tracking is a crucial requirement for various computer-assisted
interventions. To overcome problems such as specular reflection and motion blur, we …

Traditional control and task automation have been successfully demonstrated in a variety of
structured, controlled environments through the use of highly specialized modeled robotic …

Surgical tool detection is attracting increasing attention from the medical image analysis
community. The goal generally is not to precisely locate tools in images, but rather to …

Instrument detection, pose estimation, and tracking in surgical videos are an important vision
component for computer-assisted interventions. While significant advances have been made …

Accurate tool tracking is essential for the success of computer-assisted intervention.
Previous efforts often modeled tool trajectories rigidly, overlooking the dynamic nature of …

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

Robotic automation in surgery requires precise tracking of surgical tools and mapping of
deformable tissue. Previous works on surgical perception frameworks require significant …

Despite the substantial progress achieved in the development and integration of augmented
reality (AR) in surgical robotic and autonomous systems (RAS), the center of focus in most …