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cs.RO2022
Autonomous Medical Needle Steering In Vivo
Alan Kuntz, Maxwell Emerson, Tayfun Efe Ertop +10
The use of needles to access sites within organs is fundamental to many interventional medical procedures both for diagnosis and treatment. Safe and accurate navigation of a needle…
cs.RO2021
A Recurrent Neural Network Approach to Roll Estimation for Needle Steering
Maxwell Emerson, James M. Ferguson, Tayfun Efe Ertop +8
Steerable needles are a promising technology for delivering targeted therapies in the body in a minimally-invasive fashion, as they can curve around anatomical obstacles and hone i…