6 papers
PinPoint: Monocular Needle Pose Estimation for Robotic Suturing via Stein Variational Newton and Geometric Residuals
Jesse F. d'Almeida, Tanner Watts, Susheela Sharma Stern +3
Reliable estimation of surgical needle 3D position and orientation is essential for autonomous robotic suturing, yet existing methods operate almost exclusively under stereoscopic…
ProbeMDE: Uncertainty-Guided Active Proprioception for Monocular Depth Estimation in Surgical Robotics
Britton Jordan, Jordan Thompson, Jesse F. d'Almeida +8
Monocular depth estimation (MDE) provides a useful tool for robotic perception, but its predictions are often uncertain and inaccurate in challenging environments such as surgical…
PERSEUS: Perception with Semantic Endoscopic Understanding and SLAM
Ayberk Acar, Fangjie Li, Susheela Sharma Stern +9
Purpose: Natural orifice surgeries minimize the need for incisions and reduce the recovery time compared to open surgery; however, they require a higher level of expertise due to v…
A Supervised Autonomous Resection and Retraction Framework for Transurethral Enucleation of the Prostatic Median Lobe
Mariana Smith, Tanner Watts, Susheela Sharma Stern +15
Concentric tube robots (CTRs) offer dexterous motion at millimeter scales, enabling minimally invasive procedures through natural orifices. This work presents a coordinated model-b…
Monocular absolute depth estimation from endoscopy via domain-invariant feature learning and latent consistency
Hao Li, Daiwei Lu, Jesse d'Almeida +8
Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a critical task to guide autonomous medical robots. However, obtaining absolute (metric) depth from an endoscopy camera in surgical scenes is di…
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…