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ArticleIEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics2021

Vaginal Cuff Closure with Dual-Arm Robot and Near-Infrared Fluorescent Sutures.

Simon Leonard, Justin Opfermann, Nicholas Uebele, Lydia Carroll, Ryan Walter, Christopher Bayne, Jiawei Ge, Axel Krieger

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Article in IEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Simon LeonardLaboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Justin OpfermannDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Nicholas UebeleEpic Systems Corporation, Verona, WI, USA.
Lydia CarrollRotary Mission Systems, Lockheed Martin, Mount Laurel, NJ, USA.
Ryan WalterSURVICE Engineering, Belcamp, MD, USA.
Christopher BayneDepartment of Urology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Jiawei GeDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Axel KriegerDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Funding

Next Generation of Surgical Imaging and Robotics for Supervised Autonomous Soft Tissue SurgeryR01EB020610 · NIBIB · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI HSIEH, MICHAEL HARRISON, KANG, JIN U · 2016 to 2019
$1.5M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB020610
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents a dual-arm suturing robot. We extend the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) with a second robot manipulator, whose purpose is to manage loose suture thread, a task that was previously executed by a human assistant. We also introduce novel near-infrared fluorescent (NIRF) sutures that are automatically segmented and delimit the boundaries of the suturing task. During ex-vivo experiments of porcine models, our results demonstrate that this new system is capable of outperforming human surgeons in all but one metric for the task of vaginal cuff closure (porcine model) and is more consistent in every aspect of the task. We also present results to demonstrate that the system can perform a vaginal cuff closure during an in-vivo experiment (porcine model).

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Medical roboticsrobot-assisted surgeryvision-guided laparoscopic suturing

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PMID36970042
PMCPMC10038549

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