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most citedRobotic Navigation Autonomy for Subretinal Injection via Intelligent Real-Time Virtual iOCT Volume Slicing

29 citations · 60 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.RO2025

A Deep Learning-Driven Autonomous System for Retinal Vein Cannulation: Validation Using a Chicken Embryo Model

Yi Wang, Peiyao Zhang, Mojtaba Esfandiari +2

Retinal vein cannulation (RVC) is a minimally invasive microsurgical procedure for treating retinal vein occlusion (RVO), a leading cause of vision impairment. However, the small s…

cs.RO2025★ 2 cited

Deep Learning-Enhanced Robotic Subretinal Injection with Real-Time Retinal Motion Compensation

Tianle Wu, Mojtaba Esfandiari, Peiyao Zhang +3

Subretinal injection is a critical procedure for delivering therapeutic agents to treat retinal diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). However, retinal motion cau…

cs.RO2024

A Feasible Workflow for Retinal Vein Cannulation in Ex Vivo Porcine Eyes with Robotic Assistance

Peiyao Zhang, Peter Gehlbach, Marin Kobilarov +1

A potential Retinal Vein Occlusion (RVO) treatment involves Retinal Vein Cannulation (RVC), which requires the surgeon to insert a microneedle into the affected retinal vein and ad…

cs.RO2024

Towards Motion Compensation in Autonomous Robotic Subretinal Injections

Demir Arikan, Peiyao Zhang, Michael Sommersperger +7

Exudative (wet) age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of vision loss in older adults, typically treated with intravitreal injections. Emerging therapies, such a…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

Real-time Deformation-aware Control for Autonomous Robotic Subretinal Injection under iOCT Guidance

Demir Arikan, Peiyao Zhang, Michael Sommersperger +7

Robotic platforms provide consistent and precise tool positioning that significantly enhances retinal microsurgery. Integrating such systems with intraoperative optical coherence t…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

Towards Deep Learning Guided Autonomous Eye Surgery Using Microscope and iOCT Images

Ji Woong Kim, Shuwen Wei, Peiyao Zhang +4

Recent advancements in retinal surgery have paved the way for a modern operating room equipped with a surgical robot, a microscope, and intraoperative optical coherence tomography…

cs.RO2023★ 3 cited

Micromanipulation in Surgery: Autonomous Needle Insertion Inside the Eye for Targeted Drug Delivery

Ji Woong Kim, Peiyao Zhang, Peter Gehlbach +2

We consider a micromanipulation problem in eye surgery, specifically retinal vein cannulation (RVC). RVC involves inserting a microneedle into a retinal vein for the purpose of tar…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

Deep Learning Guided Autonomous Surgery: Guiding Small Needles into Sub-Millimeter Scale Blood Vessels

Ji Woong Kim, Peiyao Zhang, Peter Gehlbach +2

We propose a general strategy for autonomous guidance and insertion of a needle into a retinal blood vessel. The main challenges underpinning this task are the accurate placement o…

cs.RO2023★ 12 cited

Autonomous Needle Navigation in Retinal Microsurgery: Evaluation in ex vivo Porcine Eyes

Peiyao Zhang, Ji Woong Kim, Peter Gehlbach +2

Important challenges in retinal microsurgery include prolonged operating time, inadequate force feedback, and poor depth perception due to a constrained top-down view of the surger…

cs.RO2023★ 29 cited

Robotic Navigation Autonomy for Subretinal Injection via Intelligent Real-Time Virtual iOCT Volume Slicing

Shervin Dehghani, Michael Sommersperger, Peiyao Zhang +6

In the last decade, various robotic platforms have been introduced that could support delicate retinal surgeries. Concurrently, to provide semantic understanding of the surgical ar…

cs.RO2020★ 8 cited

Towards Autonomous Eye Surgery by Combining Deep Imitation Learning with Optimal Control

Ji Woong Kim, Peiyao Zhang, Peter Gehlbach +2

During retinal microsurgery, precise manipulation of the delicate retinal tissue is required for positive surgical outcome. However, accurate manipulation and navigation of surgica…