Sensor-Based Smart Medical Devices and Robotics
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2023) | Viewed by 261
Special Issue Editor
Interests: surgical robotics; human–robot control interface; intra-operative image processing
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Dear Colleagues,
The development of surgical robotics in recent decades has promoted the investigation of various sensing modalities, the feedback of which, in turn, has enabled more effective and accurate control. Intuitive sensing, for example, force feedback, shape reconstruction/tracking of flexible instruments, and intraoperative (intra-op) image guidance, has become one of the mainstream research avenues in the field of surgical robotics. Emerging concepts such as deep learning and augmented reality have also been accepted as promising tools to assist the diagnosis and treatment procedures. Besides the advance in single technical branches, their merging and integration widen the approaches of human–robot interaction in the operation and control of robots.This forthcoming Special Issue aims to include high-quality publications spanning (but not limited to) the following topics pertinent to surgical robotics:
- Flexible sensors;
- Instrument shape reconstruction;
- Haptics and force sensing;
- Image-guided surgeries;
- Medical image segmentation;
- Augmented reality;
- Sensor fusion;
- Intelligent control;
- Learning-based modeling;
- Tissue deformation prediction.
Dr. Ka-Wai Kwok
Guest Editor
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