Shape sensing techniques for continuum robots in minimally invasive surgery: A survey

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 …

Advanced endoscopic navigation: surgical big data, methodology, and applications

X Luo, K Mori, TM Peters - Annual review of biomedical …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Interventional endoscopy (eg, bronchoscopy, colonoscopy, laparoscopy, cystoscopy) is a
widely performed procedure that involves either diagnosis of suspicious lesions or guidance …

Visually navigated bronchoscopy using three cycle-consistent generative adversarial network for depth estimation

A Banach, F King, F Masaki, H Tsukada, N Hata - Medical image analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract [Background] Electromagnetically Navigated Bronchoscopy (ENB) is currently the
state-of-the art diagnostic and interventional bronchoscopy. CT-to-body divergence is a …

Context-aware depth and pose estimation for bronchoscopic navigation

M Shen, Y Gu, N Liu, GZ Yang - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Endobronchial intervention is increasingly used as a minimally invasive means of lung
intervention. Vision-based localization approaches are often sensitive to image artifacts in …

Monocular endoscope 6-DoF tracking with constrained evolutionary stochastic filtering

X Luo, L Xie, HQ Zeng, X Wang, S Li - Medical Image Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
Monocular endoscopic 6-DoF camera tracking plays a vital role in surgical navigation that
involves multimodal images to build augmented or virtual reality surgery. Such a 6-DoF …

Surgical navigation in orthopedics: workflow and system review

CH Ewurum, Y Guo, S Pagnha, Z Feng… - … : Artificial Intelligence and …, 2018 - Springer
Orthopedic surgery is a widely performed clinical procedure that deals with problems in
relation to the bones, joints, and ligaments of the human body, such as musculoskeletal …

Assessing changes in diabetic retinopathy caused by diabetes mellitus and glaucoma using support vector machines in combination with differential evolution …

N Anton, EN Dragoi, F Tarcoveanu, RE Ciuntu, C Lisa… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study is to evaluate the changes related to diabetic retinopathy (DR)(no
changes, small or moderate changes) in patients with glaucoma and diabetes using artificial …

A hybrid differential evolution based on gaining‑sharing knowledge algorithm and harris hawks optimization

X Zhong, M Duan, X Zhang, P Cheng - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Differential evolution (DE) is favored by scholars for its simplicity and efficiency, but its ability
to balance exploration and exploitation needs to be enhanced. In this paper, a hybrid …

Depth estimation from single-shot monocular endoscope image using image domain adaptation and edge-aware depth estimation

M Oda, H Itoh, K Tanaka, H Takabatake… - Computer Methods in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We propose a depth estimation method from a single-shot monocular endoscopic image
using Lambertian surface translation by domain adaptation and depth estimation using multi …

Constrained Evolutionary Diffusion Filter for Monocular Endoscope Tracking

X Luo - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Stochastic filtering is widely used to deal with nonlinear optimization problems such as 3-D
and visual tracking in various computer vision and augmented reality applications. Many …