High Dexterity Snake-Like Robotic Slaves for Minimally Invasive Telesurgery of the Upper Airway.
Nabil SimaanRussell H. TaylorPaul FlintPublished in: MICCAI (2) (2004)
Keyphrases
- minimally invasive
- robot assisted
- minimally invasive surgery
- surgical robot
- tactile sensing
- radio frequency ablation
- virtual endoscopy
- robotic platform
- intraoperative
- augmented reality
- image guided
- degrees of freedom
- clinical applications
- ct data
- pre operative
- beating heart
- mobile robot
- computed tomography
- active contours
- real time
- robotic systems
- computer vision
- three dimensional
- image analysis
- cardiac surgery
- energy function
- path planning
- computer assisted