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most citedVirtual Reality for Synergistic Surgical Training and Data Generation

26 citations · 53 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2026

Semantic RGB--Depth Based Surgical Skill Assessment in Microscopic Stereo Videos

Jecia Z. Y. Mao, Sue M. Cho, Francis X. Creighton +3

Objective assessment of microsurgical technical skill is essential for competency-based training and quality assurance, yet existing video-based approaches predominantly rely on RG…

cs.CV2026

Speak, Segment, Track, Navigate: An Interactive System for Video-Guided Skull-Base Surgery

Jecia Z. Y. Mao, Francis X. Creighton, Russell H. Taylor +1

We introduce a speech-guided embodied agent framework for video-guided skull base surgery that dynamically executes perception and image-guidance tasks in response to surgeon queri…

cs.CV2025

SCOPE: Speech-guided COllaborative PErception Framework for Surgical Scene Segmentation

Jecia Z. Y. Mao, Francis X Creighton, Russell H Taylor +1

Accurate segmentation and tracking of relevant elements of the surgical scene is crucial to enable context-aware intraoperative assistance and decision making. Current solutions re…

cs.RO2024

Autonomous Robotic System with Optical Coherence Tomography Guidance for Vascular Anastomosis

Jesse Haworth, Rishi Biswas, Justin Opfermann +7

Vascular anastomosis, the surgical connection of blood vessels, is essential in procedures such as organ transplants and reconstructive surgeries. The precision required limits acc…

cs.RO2024

Beyond the Manual Touch: Situational-aware Force Control for Increased Safety in Robot-assisted Skullbase Surgery

Hisashi Ishida, Deepa Galaiya, Nimesh Nagururu +4

Purpose - Skullbase surgery demands exceptional precision when removing bone in the lateral skull base. Robotic assistance can alleviate the effect of human sensory-motor limitatio…

cs.RO2024

Integrating 3D Slicer with a Dynamic Simulator for Situational Aware Robotic Interventions

Manish Sahu, Hisashi Ishida, Laura Connolly +6

Image-guided robotic interventions represent a transformative frontier in surgery, blending advanced imaging and robotics for improved precision and outcomes. This paper addresses…

cs.RO2024

Haptic-Assisted Collaborative Robot Framework for Improved Situational Awareness in Skull Base Surgery

Hisashi Ishida, Manish Sahu, Adnan Munawar +5

Skull base surgery is a demanding field in which surgeons operate in and around the skull while avoiding critical anatomical structures including nerves and vasculature. While imag…

cs.RO2023

A force-sensing surgical drill for real-time force feedback in robotic mastoidectomy

Yuxin Chen, Anna Goodridge, Manish Sahu +7

Purpose: Robotic assistance in otologic surgery can reduce the task load of operating surgeons during the removal of bone around the critical structures in the lateral skull base.…

cs.HC2023★ 15 cited

Improving Surgical Situational Awareness with Signed Distance Field: A Pilot Study in Virtual Reality

Hisashi Ishida, Juan Antonio Barragan, Adnan Munawar +6

The introduction of image-guided surgical navigation (IGSN) has greatly benefited technically demanding surgical procedures by providing real-time support and guidance to the surge…

cs.RO2023

Fully Immersive Virtual Reality for Skull-base Surgery: Surgical Training and Beyond

Adnan Munawar, Zhaoshuo Li, Nimesh Nagururu +4

Purpose: A virtual reality (VR) system, where surgeons can practice procedures on virtual anatomies, is a scalable and cost-effective alternative to cadaveric training. The fully d…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

TAToo: Vision-based Joint Tracking of Anatomy and Tool for Skull-base Surgery

Zhaoshuo Li, Hongchao Shu, Ruixing Liang +5

Purpose: Tracking the 3D motion of the surgical tool and the patient anatomy is a fundamental requirement for computer-assisted skull-base surgery. The estimated motion can be used…

cs.HC2022

Twin-S: A Digital Twin for Skull-base Surgery

Hongchao Shu, Ruixing Liang, Zhaoshuo Li +9

Purpose: Digital twins are virtual interactive models of the real world, exhibiting identical behavior and properties. In surgical applications, computational analysis from digital…

cs.RO2021★ 26 cited

Virtual Reality for Synergistic Surgical Training and Data Generation

Adnan Munawar, Zhaoshuo Li, Punit Kunjam +7

Surgical simulators not only allow planning and training of complex procedures, but also offer the ability to generate structured data for algorithm development, which may be appli…

cs.CV2021★ 3 cited

Temporally Consistent Online Depth Estimation in Dynamic Scenes

Zhaoshuo Li, Wei Ye, Dilin Wang +4

Temporally consistent depth estimation is crucial for online applications such as augmented reality. While stereo depth estimation has received substantial attention as a promising…

cs.CV2021★ 3 cited

On the Sins of Image Synthesis Loss for Self-supervised Depth Estimation

Zhaoshuo Li, Nathan Drenkow, Hao Ding +5

Scene depth estimation from stereo and monocular imagery is critical for extracting 3D information for downstream tasks such as scene understanding. Recently, learning-based method…

cs.CV2020★ 5 cited

Revisiting Stereo Depth Estimation From a Sequence-to-Sequence Perspective with Transformers

Zhaoshuo Li, Xingtong Liu, Nathan Drenkow +4

Stereo depth estimation relies on optimal correspondence matching between pixels on epipolar lines in the left and right images to infer depth. In this work, we revisit the problem…