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most citedForce Sensing in Robot-assisted Keyhole Endoscopy: A Systematic Survey

58 citations · 212 across the 44 of their papers we have counts for

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45 papers

cs.RO2025

Robotic versus Human Teleoperation for Remote Ultrasound

David Black, Septimiu Salcudean

Diagnostic medical ultrasound is widely used, safe, and relatively low cost but requires a high degree of expertise to acquire and interpret the images. Personnel with this experti…

cs.RO2025

Measurement and Potential Field-Based Patient Modeling for Model-Mediated Tele-ultrasound

Ryan S. Yeung, David G. Black, Septimiu E. Salcudean

Teleoperated ultrasound can improve diagnostic medical imaging access for remote communities. Having accurate force feedback is important for enabling sonographers to apply the app…

cs.RO2025

AutoCam: Hierarchical Path Planning for an Autonomous Auxiliary Camera in Surgical Robotics

Alexandre Banks, Randy Moore, Sayem Nazmuz Zaman +2

Incorporating an autonomous auxiliary camera into robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS) enhances spatial awareness and eliminates manual viewpoint control. Existing pat…

cs.HC2025

Linearity, Time Invariance, and Passivity of a Novice Person in Human Teleoperation

David Black, Septimiu Salcudean

Low-cost teleguidance of medical procedures is becoming essential to provide healthcare to remote and underserved communities. Human teleoperation is a promising new method for gui…

cs.CV2025

ToolTipNet: A Segmentation-Driven Deep Learning Baseline for Surgical Instrument Tip Detection

Zijian Wu, Shuojue Yang, Yueming Jin +1

In robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP), the location of the instrument tip is important to register the ultrasound frame with the laparoscopic camera frame. A…

cs.RO2025

Setup-Invariant Augmented Reality for Teaching by Demonstration with Surgical Robots

Alexandre Banks, Richard Cook, Septimiu E. Salcudean

Augmented reality (AR) is an effective tool in robotic surgery education as it combines exploratory learning with three-dimensional guidance. However, existing AR systems require e…

cs.CV2025

Point Tracking in Surgery--The 2024 Surgical Tattoos in Infrared (STIR) Challenge

Adam Schmidt, Mert Asim Karaoglu, Soham Sinha +37

Understanding tissue motion in surgery is crucial to enable applications in downstream tasks such as segmentation, 3D reconstruction, virtual tissue landmarking, autonomous probe-b…

cs.CV2025

Instrument-Splatting: Controllable Photorealistic Reconstruction of Surgical Instruments Using Gaussian Splatting

Shuojue Yang, Zijian Wu, Mingxuan Hong +4

Real2Sim is becoming increasingly important with the rapid development of surgical artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy. In this work, we propose a novel Real2Sim methodology,…

cs.CV2025

SemICP: Semantic Non-Rigid Point Cloud Registration with Elastic Energy Regularization

Wanwen Chen, Qi Zeng, Carson Studders +6

Purpose: Accurate point cloud registration is essential in computer-aided interventions (CAI) to align multi-modal medical images for intraoperative guidance. Classical methods, su…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

SurgPose: a Dataset for Articulated Robotic Surgical Tool Pose Estimation and Tracking

Zijian Wu, Adam Schmidt, Randy Moore +4

Accurate and efficient surgical robotic tool pose estimation is of fundamental significance to downstream applications such as augmented reality (AR) in surgical training and learn…

cs.RO2025

Visual-Haptic Model Mediated Teleoperation for Remote Ultrasound

David Black, Maria Tirindelli, Septimiu Salcudean +2

Tele-ultrasound has the potential greatly to improve health equity for countless remote communities. However, practical scenarios involve potentially large time delays which cause…

cs.CV2024

Image Retrieval with Intra-Sweep Representation Learning for Neck Ultrasound Scanning Guidance

Wanwen Chen, Adam Schmidt, Eitan Prisman +1

Purpose: Intraoperative ultrasound (US) can enhance real-time visualization in transoral robotic surgery. The surgeon creates a mental map with a pre-operative scan. Then, a surgic…

cs.CV2024

A-MFST: Adaptive Multi-Flow Sparse Tracker for Real-Time Tissue Tracking Under Occlusion

Yuxin Chen, Zijian Wu, Adam Schmidt +1

Purpose: Tissue tracking is critical for downstream tasks in robot-assisted surgery. The Sparse Efficient Neural Depth and Deformation (SENDD) model has previously demonstrated acc…

cs.RO2024

Stability and Transparency in Mixed Reality Bilateral Human Teleoperation

David Gregory Black, Septimiu Salcudean

Recent work introduced the concept of human teleoperation (HT), where the remote robot typically considered in conventional bilateral teleoperation is replaced by a novice person w…

cs.HC2024★ 1 cited

Mixed Reality Tele-Ultrasound over 750 km: A Feasibility Study

Ryan Yeung, David Black, Patrick B. Chen +5

To address the lack of access to ultrasound in remote communities, previous work introduced human teleoperation, a mixed reality and haptics-based tele-ultrasound system. In this a…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

SegSTRONG-C: Segmenting Surgical Tools Robustly On Non-adversarial Generated Corruptions -- An EndoVis'24 Challenge

Hao Ding, Yuqian Zhang, Tuxun Lu +39

Surgical data science has seen rapid advancement with the excellent performance of end-to-end deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite their successes, DNNs have been proven susceptibl…

cs.CV2024

Augmenting Efficient Real-time Surgical Instrument Segmentation in Video with Point Tracking and Segment Anything

Zijian Wu, Adam Schmidt, Peter Kazanzides +1

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful vision foundation model that is revolutionizing the traditional paradigm of segmentation. Despite this, a reliance on prompting each…

cs.CV2024

PIPsUS: Self-Supervised Point Tracking in Ultrasound

Wanwen Chen, Adam Schmidt, Eitan Prisman +1

Finding point-level correspondences is a fundamental problem in ultrasound (US), since it can enable US landmark tracking for intraoperative image guidance in different surgeries,…

cs.CV2023★ 53 cited

Tracking and Mapping in Medical Computer Vision: A Review

Adam Schmidt, Omid Mohareri, Simon DiMaio +2

As computer vision algorithms increase in capability, their applications in clinical systems will become more pervasive. These applications include: diagnostics, such as colonoscop…

cs.RO2023

The Quiet Eye Phenomenon in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Alaa Eldin Abdelaal, Rachelle Van Rumpt, Sayem Nazmuz Zaman +6

In this paper, we report our discovery of a gaze behavior called Quiet Eye (QE) in minimally invasive surgery. The QE behavior has been extensively studied in sports training and h…

cs.CV2023★ 10 cited

Surgical Tattoos in Infrared: A Dataset for Quantifying Tissue Tracking and Mapping

Adam Schmidt, Omid Mohareri, Simon DiMaio +1

Quantifying performance of methods for tracking and mapping tissue in endoscopic environments is essential for enabling image guidance and automation of medical interventions and s…

physics.med-ph2023

3D Ultrafast Shear Wave Absolute Vibro-Elastography using a Matrix Array Transducer

Hoda S. Hashemi, Shahed K. Mohammed, Qi Zeng +3

3D ultrasound imaging provides more spatial information compared to conventional 2D frames by considering the volumes of data. One of the main bottlenecks of 3D imaging is the long…

cs.RO2023

Automatic Search for Photoacoustic Marker Using Automated Transrectal Ultrasound

Zijian Wu, Hamid Moradi, Shuojue Yang +3

Real-time transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) image guidance during robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy has the potential to enhance surgery outcomes. Whether conventional…

cs.RO2023

Arc-to-line frame registration method for ultrasound and photoacoustic image-guided intraoperative robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy

Hyunwoo Song, Shuojue Yang, Zijian Wu +5

Purpose: To achieve effective robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy, the integration of transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) imaging system which is the most widely used imaging model…