Automatic planning of needle placement for robot-assisted percutaneous procedures.

Esia BelbachirEhsan GolkarBernard BayleCaroline Essert

Published in: International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery (2018)

The introduced planning method helped us prove that it is possible to use such a "general purpose" redundant manipulator equipped with a dedicated tool to perform percutaneous interventions in cluttered spaces like a CT gantry.

Keyphrases

robot assisted
ultrasound guided
minimally invasive
computed tomography
radiofrequency ablation
image quality
dual energy
deep learning
physical activity
machine learning
contrast enhanced
magnetic resonance imaging