Applied Sciences, 2021 In various studies, problems with surgical instruments in the operating room are usually one of the major causes of delays and errors. It would be of great help, in surgery, to quickly and automatically identify and keep count of the surgical instruments
Jiann-Der Lee +3 more
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Magnetic Surgical Instruments for Robotic Abdominal Surgery. [PDF]
, 2016 This review looks at the implementation of magnetic-based approaches in surgical instruments for abdominal surgeries. As abdominal surgical techniques advance toward minimizing surgical trauma, surgical instruments are enhanced to support such an ...
Di Natali, C +6 more
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U-NetPlus: A Modified Encoder-Decoder U-Net Architecture for Semantic and Instance Segmentation of Surgical Instruments from Laparoscopic Images [PDF]
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2019 With the advent of robot-assisted surgery, there has been a paradigm shift in medical technology for minimally invasive surgery. However, it is very challenging to track the position of the surgical instruments in a surgical scene, and accurate detection
S. Hasan, C. Linte
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Finite element model set-up of colorectal tissue for analyzing surgical scenarios [PDF]
, 2017 Finite Element Analysis (FEA) has gained an extensive application in the medical field, such as soft tissues simulations. In particular, colorectal simulations can be used to understand the interaction with the surrounding tissues, or with instruments ...
Bici, Michele +4 more
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Development of an intelligent surgical training system for Thoracentesis [PDF]
, 2018 Surgical training improves patient care, helps to reduce surgical risks, increases surgeon’s confidence, and thus enhances overall patient safety. Current surgical training systems are more focused on developing technical skills, e.g.
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RASNet: Segmentation for Tracking Surgical Instruments in Surgical Videos Using Refined Attention Segmentation Network [PDF]
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2019 Segmentation for tracking surgical instruments plays an important role in robot-assisted surgery. Segmentation of surgical instruments contributes to capturing accurate spatial information for tracking.
Zhen-Liang Ni +5 more
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Measures of Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes in Pediatric Neurosurgery: Literature Review [PDF]
, 2019 Background Improving value in healthcare means optimizing outcomes and minimizing costs. The emerging pay-for-performance era requires understanding of the effect of healthcare services on health-related quality of life (HRQoL).
Desai, Virendra R. +4 more
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Attention-Guided Lightweight Network for Real-Time Segmentation of Robotic Surgical Instruments [PDF]
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019 The real-time segmentation of surgical instruments plays a crucial role in robot-assisted surgery. However, it is still a challenging task to implement deep learning models to do real-time segmentation for surgical instruments due to their high ...
Zhen-Liang Ni +5 more
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Pyramid Attention Aggregation Network for Semantic Segmentation of Surgical Instruments
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020 Semantic segmentation of surgical instruments plays a critical role in computer-assisted surgery. However, specular reflection and scale variation of instruments are likely to occur in the surgical environment, undesirably altering visual features of ...
Zhen-Liang Ni +6 more
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Cavitation-vibration coupling mechanism in ultrasonic guidewire vascular ablation
Ultrasonics SonochemistryEffective treatment of diverse vascular occlusions requires precise energy delivery and tissue-specific ablation strategies. This study systematically investigates the coupled mechanical vibration and cavitation mechanisms of a novel flexible ultrasonic ...
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