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In recent years, the steerable needles have attracted significant interest in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). Amongst these, the flexible Programmable-bevel tip needle (PBN) concept has successfully achieved an in-vivo demonstration to…
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This paper introduces a novel proprioceptive state estimator for legged robots that combines model-based filters and deep neural networks. Recent studies have shown that neural networks such as multi-layer perceptron or recurrent neural…
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We propose a general strategy for autonomous guidance and insertion of a needle into a retinal blood vessel. The main challenges underpinning this task are the accurate placement of the needle-tip on the target vein and a careful needle…
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Segmenting a moving needle in ultrasound images is challenging due to the presence of artifacts, noise, and needle occlusion. This task becomes even more demanding in scenarios where data availability is limited. In this paper, we present a…
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Emerging from low-level vision theory, steerable filters found their counterpart in prior work on steerable convolutional neural networks equivariant to rigid transformations. In our work, we propose a steerable feed-forward learning-based…
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Systems biology is an emerging interdisciplinary area of research that focuses on study of complex interactions in a biological system, such as gene regulatory networks. The discovery of gene regulatory networks leads to a wide range of…
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