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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, Bini, Fabiano, Campana, Francesca, Guachi, Robinson, Marinozzi, Franco   +4 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., Gadgil, Nisha, Lam, Sandi K., Raskin, Jeffrey S., Saad, Shahbaz   +4 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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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.
DE MOMI, Elena, Ferrigno, Giancarlo, Nakawala, HIRENKUMAR CHANDRAKANT   +2 more
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Tribology of Medical Devices [PDF]

, 2016
Importance of tribology in a number of medical devices and surgical instruments is reviewed, including artificial joints, artificial teeth, dental implants and orthodontic appliances, cardiovascular devices, contact lenses, artificial limbs and surgical ...
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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, Guibin Bian, Xiaoliang Xie, Z. Hou, Xiao-Hu Zhou, Yan-Jie Zhou   +5 more
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The role of cognitive abilities in laparoscopic simulator training [PDF]

, 2013
Learning minimally invasive surgery (MIS) differs substantially from learning open surgery and trainees differ in their ability to learn MIS. Previous studies mainly focused on the role of visuo-spatial ability (VSA) on the learning curve for MIS. In the
Broeders, I.A.M.J., Groenier, M., Miedema, H.A.T., Schraagen, J.M.C.   +3 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, Guibin Bian, Z. Hou, Xiao-Hu Zhou, Xiaoliang Xie, Zhen Li   +5 more
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Assistance strategies for robotized laparoscopy [PDF]

, 2020
Robotizing laparoscopic surgery not only allows achieving better accuracy to operate when a scale factor is applied between master and slave or thanks to the use of tools with 3 DoF, which cannot be used in conventional manual surgery, but also due to ...
Amat Girbau, Josep, Casals Gelpi, Alicia, Hernansanz Prats, Alberto, Sayols Baixeras, Narcís   +3 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, Guibin Bian, Guan'an Wang, Xiao-Hu Zhou, Z. Hou, Huabin Chen, Xiaoliang Xie   +6 more
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