ViKY robotic scope holder: Initial clinical experience and preliminary results using instrument tracking

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 879-886

  Voros, Sandrine ^a   Haber, Georges Pascal ^b   Menudet, Jean François ^c   Long, Jean Alexandre ^d   Cinquin, Philippe ^a,d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Endocontrol Company   (France)

^d GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic instruments detection and tracking; clinical experiments; laparoscopy; robotic endoscope holder; robotic surgery; vision based control

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EXPERIMENTS; DETECTION AND TRACKING; LAPAROSCOPY; ROBOTIC SURGERY; VISION-BASED CONTROL;

CLINICAL LABORATORIES; COMPUTER VISION; ENDOSCOPY; INSTRUMENTS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SURGERY; TRACKING (POSITION);

SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 78650415782     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2010.2080683     Document Type: Article

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