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ArticleIEEE robotics and automation letters2025

Few-Shot Magnet Localization Using Sim-to-Real Transfer Learning.

Yuan Wang, Giovanni Pittiglio, Xiaowei Lin, Pierre E Dupont

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Article in IEEE robotics and automation letters, 2025. 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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4 authors.

Yuan WangDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Giovanni PittiglioDepartment of Robotics Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Insitute (WPI), Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
Xiaowei LinDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Pierre E DupontDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Funding

Cardioscopically-guided Valve Repair in the Beating HeartR01HL124020 · NHLBI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Pierre E Dupont · 2014 to 2026
$9.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL124020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Magnet localization is widely used for real-time medical instrument tracking because it offers a radiation-free alternative to fluoroscopy. While physics-model-based tracking methods are standard, localization accuracy can suffer owing to imperfect physical assumptions and computational inefficiencies in iterative convergence. This paper proposes a learning-based method that uses a single, compact neural network to achieve efficient magnetic localization with low computation cost. The proposed method achieves few-shot generalization through transfer learning based on a simulation dataset. Mean magnet position and orientation errors are 1.66 mm and 2.15° in a 100×100×100mm workspace using only four 3-channel sensors, providing a 2× improvement compared to a magnetic model-based method. A real-time catheter tracking experiment demonstrates that the efficacy of the method for practical medical applications.

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cardiac catheterfew-shot learningMagnetic localizationneural networks

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PMID41246130
PMCPMC12617355

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