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Automatic Spinal Canal Breach Detection During Pedicle Screw Placement
Precise pedicle screw placement is imperative for a range of spinal procedures demanding exact geometric alignment while also carrying …
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Breach Detection in Spine Surgery Based on Cutting Torque
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Development and evaluation of robot-assisted ultrasound navigation system for pedicle screw placement: An ex-vivo animal validation
Spinal instrumentation with pedicle screw placement (PSP) is an important surgical technique for spinal diseases. Accurate screw …
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Ultrasound-Based Robot-Assisted Drilling for Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Placement
Minimally invasive pedicle screw placement (MIPSP) is a widely used treatment for spine diseases. When coupled with intraoperative …
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State-of-the-Art of Non-Radiative, Non-Visual Spine Sensing with a Focus on Sensing Forces, Vibrations and Bioelectrical Properties: A Systematic Review
In the research field of robotic spine surgery, there is a big upcoming momentum for surgeon-like autonomous behaviour and surgical …
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Robot-assisted ultrasound reconstruction for spine surgery: from bench-top to pre-clinical study
Purpose. Robot-assisted ultrasound (rUS) systems have already been used to provide non-radiative three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions …
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Automatic breach detection during spine pedicle drilling based on vibroacoustic sensing
Pedicle drilling is a complex and critical spinal surgery task. Detecting breach or penetration of the surgical tool to the cortical …
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Hyperspectral image segmentation: a preliminary study on the Oral and Dental Spectral Image Database (ODSI-DB)
Visual discrimination of clinical tissue types remains challenging, with traditional RGB imaging providing limited contrast for such …
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Rapid and robust endoscopic content area estimation: A lean GPU-based pipeline and curated benchmark dataset
Endoscopic content area refers to the informative area enclosed by the dark, non-informative, border regions present in most endoscopic …
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Spatial gradient consistency for unsupervised learning of hyperspectral demosaicking: application to surgical imaging
Hyperspectral imaging has the potential to improve intraoperative decision making if tissue characterisation is performed in real-time …
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