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Force Sensor Integrated Surgical Forceps for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery by Uikyum Kim, Dong-Hyuk Lee, Woon Jong Yoon, Hannaford, Blake, Choi, Hyouk Ryeol

“…This paper presents a novel surgical instrument integrated with a four-degree-of-freedom (DOF) force sensor. By adopting the capacitive transduction principle,…”
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A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020 by Dupont, Pierre E, Nelson, Bradley J, Goldfarb, Michael, Hannaford, Blake, Menciassi, Arianna, O'Malley, Marcia K, Simaan, Nabil, Valdastri, Pietro, Yang, Guang-Zhong

“…Robotics is a forward-looking discipline. Attention is focused on identifying the next grand challenges. In an applied field such as medical robotics, however,…”
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Evaluation of segmentation methods on head and neck CT: Auto‐segmentation challenge 2015 by Raudaschl, Patrik F., Zaffino, Paolo, Sharp, Gregory C., Spadea, Maria Francesca, Chen, Antong, Dawant, Benoit M., Albrecht, Thomas, Gass, Tobias, Langguth, Christoph, Lüthi, Marcel, Jung, Florian, Knapp, Oliver, Wesarg, Stefan, Mannion‐Haworth, Richard, Bowes, Mike, Ashman, Annaliese, Guillard, Gwenael, Brett, Alan, Vincent, Graham, Orbes‐Arteaga, Mauricio, Cárdenas‐Peña, David, Castellanos‐Dominguez, German, Aghdasi, Nava, Li, Yangming, Berens, Angelique, Moe, Kris, Hannaford, Blake, Schubert, Rainer, Fritscher, Karl D.

“…Purpose Automated delineation of structures and organs is a key step in medical imaging. However, due to the large number and diversity of structures and the…”
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Local Style Preservation in Improved GAN-Driven Synthetic Image Generation for Endoscopic Tool Segmentation by Su, Yun-Hsuan, Jiang, Wenfan, Chitrakar, Digesh, Huang, Kevin, Peng, Haonan, Hannaford, Blake

“…Accurate semantic image segmentation from medical imaging can enable intelligent vision-based assistance in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. The…”
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Virtual Reality Robotic Surgery Warm-Up Improves Task Performance in a Dry Laboratory Environment: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Study by Lendvay, Thomas S., MD, FACS, Brand, Timothy C., MD, FACS, White, Lee, BSc(Hons), PhC, Kowalewski, Timothy, PhD, Jonnadula, Saikiran, MD, Mercer, Laina D., MS, Khorsand, Derek, BSc(Hons), Andros, Justin, BSc(Hons), Hannaford, Blake, PhD, Satava, Richard M., MD, FACS

“…Background Preoperative simulation warm-up has been shown to improve performance and reduce errors in novice and experienced surgeons, yet existing studies…”
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Biomechanical properties of abdominal organs in vivo and postmortem under compression loads by Rosen, Jacob, Brown, Jeffrey D, De, Smita, Sinanan, Mika, Hannaford, Blake

“…Accurate knowledge of biomechanical characteristics of tissues is essential for developing realistic computer-based surgical simulators incorporating haptic…”
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The RAVEN: Design and Validation of a Telesurgery System by Lum, Mitchell J. H., Friedman, Diana C. W., Sankaranarayanan, Ganesh, King, Hawkeye, Fodero, Kenneth, Leuschke, Rainer, Hannaford, Blake, Rosen, Jacob, Sinanan, Mika N.

“…The collaborative effort between fundamental science, engineering and medicine provides physicians with improved tools and techniques for delivering effective…”
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Utilizing Elasticity of Cable-Driven Surgical Robot to Estimate Cable Tension and External Force by Haghighipanah, Mohammad, Miyasaka, Muneaki, Hannaford, Blake

“…Cable-driven robots enable compact design by allowing actuators to be mounted away from joints. This kind of actuation is desired in surgical robots. The…”
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Real-time virtual intraoperative CT in endoscopic sinus surgery by Li, Yangming, Konuthula, Neeraja, Humphreys, Ian M., Moe, Kris, Hannaford, Blake, Bly, Randall

“…Purpose Endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) is typically guided under preoperative computed tomography (CT), which increasingly diverges from actual patient anatomy…”
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RURAL TELESURGERY NETWORK CHARACTERIZATION FOR FUTURE REMOTE CARDIAC CATHETER ABLATION by Balasubramaniyam, Harini, Hannaford, Blake, Ryan james, Monsky, Wayne, Seslar, Stephen P.

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Assessment of Tissue Damage due to Mechanical Stresses by De, Smita, Rosen, Jacob, Dagan, Aylon, Hannaford, Blake, Swanson, Paul, Sinanan, Mika

“…While there are many benefits to minimally invasive surgery (MIS), force feedback or touch sensation is limited in the currently available MIS tools, such as…”
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Crowd-sourced assessment of surgical skills in cricothyrotomy procedure by Aghdasi, Nava, PhD, Bly, Randall, MD, White, Lee W., PhD, Hannaford, Blake, PhD, Moe, Kris, MD, FACS, Lendvay, Thomas S., MD

“…Abstract Background Objective assessment of surgical skills is resource intensive and requires valuable time of expert surgeons. The goal of this study was to…”
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Improving position precision of a servo-controlled elastic cable driven surgical robot using Unscented Kalman Filter by Haghighipanah, Mohammad, Yangming Li, Miyasaka, Muneaki, Hannaford, Blake

“…Cable driven power transmission is popular in many manipulator applications including medical arms. In spite of advantages obtained by removing motors from the…”
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Automated atlas-based segmentation for skull base surgical planning by Konuthula, Neeraja, Perez, Francisco A., Maga, A. Murat, Abuzeid, Waleed M., Moe, Kris, Hannaford, Blake, Bly, Randall A.

“…Purpose Computational surgical planning tools could help develop novel skull base surgical approaches that improve safety and patient outcomes. This defines a…”
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An ankle-foot orthosis powered by artificial pneumatic muscles by Ferris, Daniel P, Czerniecki, Joseph M, Hannaford, Blake

“…We developed a pneumatically powered orthosis for the human ankle joint. The orthosis consisted of a carbon fiber shell, hinge joint, and two artificial…”
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Beyond task time: automated measurement augments fundamentals of laparoscopic skills methodology by Kowalewski, Timothy M., PhD, White, Lee W., PhD, Lendvay, Thomas S., MD, FACS, Jiang, Iris S., BS, Sweet, Robert, MD, FACS, Wright, Andrew, MD, Hannaford, Blake, PhD, Sinanan, Mika N., MD, PhD, FACS

“…Abstract Background Laparoscopic psychomotor skills are challenging to learn and objectively evaluate. The Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Skills (FLS) program…”
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RAVEN Eyes Around the Instrument from Modular Axis Sharing by Velasquez, Carlos A., Kim, Yoon Sang, Lendvay, Thomas S., Hannaford, Blake, Yoon, W. Jong

“…One of the current limitations in MIS robotic surgery is the limited field of view due to the use of a sole rigid 3D–imaging camera. This study proposes a…”
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Exploring telerobotic cardiac catheter ablation in a rural community hospital: A pilot study by Serafini, Brian, Kim, Lanu, Saour, Basil M., James, Ryan, Hannaford, Blake, Hansen, Ryan, Kohno, Tadayoshi, Monsky, Wayne, Seslar, Stephen P.

“…Telerobotic surgery could improve access to specialty procedures such as cardiac catheter ablation in rural and underserved regions in the United States and…”
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Wrist Motion Variation between Novices and Experienced Surgeons Performing Simulated Airway Surgery by Callahan, Edward, Bly, Randall, Johnson, Kaalan, Aghdasi, Nava, Hannaford, Blake, Moe, Kris, Sardesai, Maya G.

“…Objective To determine whether wrist motion measured by a smartphone application can be used as a performance metric for a simulated airway procedure requiring…”
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IKBT: Solving Symbolic Inverse Kinematics with Behavior Tree by Zhang, Dianmu, Hannaford, Blake

“…Inverse kinematics solves the problem of how to control robot arm joints to achieve desired end effector positions, which is critical to any robot arm design…”
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