ArticleIEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering2019
Robotic Transrectal Ultrasound Guided Prostate Biopsy.
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- A Review and Perspective of Techniques for Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound Acquisitions.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Navigation and Robotics in Interventional Oncology: Current Status and Future Roadmap.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Robot-Assisted Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Targeted versus Systematic Prostate Biopsy; Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cancers · 2023Review
- Ultrasound Probe and Hand-Eye Calibrations for Robot-Assisted Needle Biopsy.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Global Research of Artificial Intelligence on Prostate Cancer: A 22-Year Bibliometric Analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Semi-Automatic Prostate Segmentation From Ultrasound Images Using Machine Learning and Principal Curve Based on Interpretable Mathematical Model Expression.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Concurrently bendable and rotatable continuum tubular robot for omnidirectional multi-core transurethral prostate biopsy.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2022Article
- Transrectal Ultrasound in Prostate Cancer: Current Utilization, Integration with mpMRI, HIFU and Other Emerging Applications.Cancer management and research · 2022Review
- Diagnostic accuracy and clinical implications of robotic assisted MRI-US fusion guided target saturation biopsy of the prostate.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Toward autonomous robotic prostate biopsy: a pilot study.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2021Article
- Ultrasound-guided needle insertion robotic system for percutaneous puncture.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2021Article
- Integration of Real-Time Image Fusion in the Robotic-Assisted Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Biology · 2020Article
- Intelligent magnetic manipulation for gastrointestinal ultrasound.Science robotics · 2019Article
- Robotics in Interventional Radiology: Review of Current and Future Applications.Technology in cancer research & treatmentReview
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Abstract
We present a robot-assisted approach for transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided prostate biopsy. The robot is a hands-free probe manipulator that moves the probe with the same 4 DoF that are used manually. Software was developed for three-dimensional (3-D) imaging, biopsy planning, robot control, and navigation. Methods to minimize the deformation of the prostate caused by the probe at 3-D imaging and needle targeting were developed to reduce biopsy targeting errors. We also present a prostate coordinate system (PCS). The PCS helps defining a systematic biopsy plan without the need for prostate segmentation. Comprehensive tests were performed, including two bench tests, one imaging test, two in vitro targeting tests, and an IRB-approved clinical trial on five patients. Preclinical tests showed that image-based needle targeting can be accomplished with accuracy on the order of 1 mm. Prostate biopsy can be accomplished with minimal TRUS pressure on the gland and submillimetric prostate deformations. All five clinical cases were successful with an average procedure time of 13 min and millimeter targeting accuracy. Hands-free TRUS operation, transrectal TRUS guided prostate biopsy with minimal prostate deformations, and the PCS-based biopsy plan are novel methods. Robot-assisted prostate biopsy is safe and feasible. Accurate needle targeting has the potential to increase the detection of clinically significant prostate cancer.
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