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MACAW: Reliable And Efficient Surgical Debridement Using Monocular Adaptive Compact Attention Windows
Ziyang Chen, Shutong Jin, Preethi Satish +6
Augmenting the dexterity of human surgeons has the potential to free them from tedious subtasks. We consider debridement (removal of diseased or dead tissue fragments), which is ch…
Self-Supervised Learning for Interactive Perception of Surgical Thread for Autonomous Suture Tail-Shortening
Vincent Schorp, Will Panitch, Kaushik Shivakumar +6
Accurate 3D sensing of suturing thread is a challenging problem in automated surgical suturing because of the high state-space complexity, thinness and deformability of the thread,…
Automating Vascular Shunt Insertion with the dVRK Surgical Robot
Karthik Dharmarajan, Will Panitch, Muyan Jiang +7
Vascular shunt insertion is a fundamental surgical procedure used to temporarily restore blood flow to tissues. It is often performed in the field after major trauma. We formulate…
Learning to Localize, Grasp, and Hand Over Unmodified Surgical Needles
Albert Wilcox, Justin Kerr, Brijen Thananjeyan +5
Robotic Surgical Assistants (RSAs) are commonly used to perform minimally invasive surgeries by expert surgeons. However, long procedures filled with tedious and repetitive tasks s…
Automating Surgical Peg Transfer: Calibration with Deep Learning Can Exceed Speed, Accuracy, and Consistency of Humans
Minho Hwang, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Brijen Thananjeyan +5
Peg transfer is a well-known surgical training task in the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS). While human sur-geons teleoperate robots such as the da Vinci to perform this…
Intermittent Visual Servoing: Efficiently Learning Policies Robust to Instrument Changes for High-precision Surgical Manipulation
Samuel Paradis, Minho Hwang, Brijen Thananjeyan +6
Automation of surgical tasks using cable-driven robots is challenging due to backlash, hysteresis, and cable tension, and these issues are exacerbated as surgical instruments must…
On the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality-based Training for Robotic Setup
Arian Mehrfard, Javad Fotouhi, Tess Forster +5
Virtual Reality (VR) is rapidly increasing in popularity as a teaching tool. It allows for the creation of a highly immersive, three-dimensional virtual environment intended to sim…
Efficiently Calibrating Cable-Driven Surgical Robots with RGBD Fiducial Sensing and Recurrent Neural Networks
Minho Hwang, Brijen Thananjeyan, Samuel Paradis +5
Automation of surgical subtasks using cable-driven robotic surgical assistants (RSAs) such as Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) is challenging due to imprecision in…
Applying Depth-Sensing to Automated Surgical Manipulation with a da Vinci Robot
Minho Hwang, Daniel Seita, Brijen Thananjeyan +5
Recent advances in depth-sensing have significantly increased accuracy, resolution, and frame rate, as shown in the 1920x1200 resolution and 13 frames per second Zivid RGBD camera.…