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IntroductionThe current assessment and standardization of microsurgical skills are subjective, posing challenges in reliable skill evaluation. We aim to address these limitations by developing a quantitative and objective framework for accurately assessing ...

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Detection of surgical instruments plays a key role in ensuring patient safety in minimally invasive surgery. In this paper, we present a novel method for 2D vision-based recognition and pose estimation of surgical instruments that generalizes to different ...

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In surgical to industrial manipulation, the operator needs assistance for tasks requiring more than two hands. Teamwork may be the source of errors and inefficiency, especially if the assistant is a novice or unfamiliar with the main operator. The need for ...

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Role of Holographic Displays and Stereovision Displays in Patient Safety and Robotic Surgery

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In this study, the role of different 3D vision systems on the patient safety in the context of robotic surgery was studied. Clearly safety is the foremost importance in all surgical procedures. It is well studied in the clinical surgical procedures but the ...

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Increasing Haptic Fidelity and Ergonomics in Teleoperated Surgery

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A novel mechanical system, based on a new cable driven mechanical transmission, able to provide sufficient dexterity, stiffness, speed, precision and payload capacity to actuate multi-DOF micro-manipulators. Besides the possibility of being used in several ...

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