8 papers
Point Cloud Segmentation for Autonomous Clip Positioning in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy on a Phantom
Balázs Gyenes, Nikolai Franke, Paul Maria Scheikl +5
High-risk applications in robotics, such as robot-assisted surgery, present unique challenges. These systems must be both highly precise and interpretable in order to be deployed i…
SurgiPose: Estimating Surgical Tool Kinematics from Monocular Video for Surgical Robot Learning
Juo-Tung Chen, XinHao Chen, Ji Woong Kim +3
Imitation learning (IL) has shown immense promise in enabling autonomous dexterous manipulation, including learning surgical tasks. To fully unlock the potential of IL for surgery,…
Surgical Gaussian Surfels: Highly Accurate Real-time Surgical Scene Rendering using Gaussian Surfels
Idris O. Sunmola, Zhenjun Zhao, Samuel Schmidgall +4
Accurate geometric reconstruction of deformable tissues in monocular endoscopic video remains a fundamental challenge in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. Although recent…
SRT-H: A Hierarchical Framework for Autonomous Surgery via Language Conditioned Imitation Learning
Ji Woong Kim, Juo-Tung Chen, Pascal Hansen +11
Research on autonomous surgery has largely focused on simple task automation in controlled environments. However, real-world surgical applications demand dexterous manipulation ove…
LUDO: Low-Latency Understanding of Deformable Objects using Point Cloud Occupancy Functions
Pit Henrich, Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, Paul Maria Scheikl
Accurately determining the shape of deformable objects and the location of their internal structures is crucial for medical tasks that require precise targeting, such as robotic bi…
From Monocular Vision to Autonomous Action: Guiding Tumor Resection via 3D Reconstruction
Ayberk Acar, Mariana Smith, Lidia Al-Zogbi +14
Surgical automation requires precise guidance and understanding of the scene. Current methods in the literature rely on bulky depth cameras to create maps of the anatomy, however t…