3 papers
cs.RO2024
Safe Start Regions for Medical Steerable Needle Automation
Janine Hoelscher, Inbar Fried, Spiros Tsalikis +3
Steerable needles are minimally invasive devices that enable novel medical procedures by following curved paths to avoid critical anatomical obstacles. Planning algorithms can be u…
cs.RO2023
A Dataset of Anatomical Environments for Medical Robots: Modeling Respiratory Deformation
Inbar Fried, Janine Hoelscher, Jason A. Akulian +1
Anatomical models of a medical robot's environment can significantly help guide design and development of a new robotic system. These models can be used for benchmarking motion pla…
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…