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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Article
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...
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Article
Open AccessRetrospective 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...