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  1. Chapter and Conference Paper

    Generalized Trajectory Planning for Nonlinear Interventions

    Minimally invasive procedures with flexible instruments such as endoscopes, needles or drilling units are becoming more and more common. Their automated insertion will be standard across several applications i...

    Johannes Fauser, Igor Stenin, Julia Kristin in OR 2.0 Context-Aware Operating Theaters, C… (2018)

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    Article

    Planning nonlinear access paths for temporal bone surgery

    Interventions at the otobasis operate in the narrow region of the temporal bone where several highly sensitive organs define obstacles with minimal clearance for surgical instruments. Nonlinear trajectories fo...

    Johannes Fauser, Georgios Sakas in International Journal of Computer Assisted… (2018)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Optimizing Clearance of Bézier Spline Trajectories for Minimally-Invasive Surgery

    Preoperative planning of nonlinear trajectories is a key element in minimally-invasive surgery. Interpolating between start and goal of an intervention while circumnavigating risk structures provides the neces...

    Johannes Fauser, Igor Stenin, Julia Kristin in Medical Image Computing and Computer Assis… (2019)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Preoperative Planning for Guidewires Employing Shape-Regularized Segmentation and Optimized Trajectories

    Upcoming robotic interventions for endovascular procedures can significantly reduce the high radiation exposure currently endured by surgeons. Robotically driven guidewires replace manual insertion and leave t...

    Johannes Fauser, Moritz Fuchs, Ahmed Ghazy in OR 2.0 Context-Aware Operating Theaters an… (2019)

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    Toward an automatic preoperative pipeline for image-guided temporal bone surgery

    Minimally invasive surgery is often built upon a time-consuming preoperative step consisting of segmentation and trajectory planning. At the temporal bone, a complete automation of these two tasks might lead t...

    Johannes Fauser, Igor Stenin, Markus Bauer in International Journal of Computer Assisted… (2019)

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    Open Access

    Retrospective in silico evaluation of optimized preoperative planning for temporal bone surgery

    Robot-assisted surgery at the temporal bone utilizing a flexible drilling unit would allow safer access to clinical targets such as the cochlea or the internal auditory canal by navigating along nonlinear traj...

    Johannes Fauser, Simon Bohlender in International Journal of Computer Assisted… (2020)