Robotic Trainer for Ultrasound Guided Needle Insertion
Ultrasound guided needle insertion is one of the most difficult skill requiring tasks in surgery. Training with mock-ups and on cadavers is difficult, costly, time consuming, and mostly requires one-to-one expert presence. A visual and haptic simulator environment can reduce the cost and time for training and allow for self-training sessions to the trainee surgeons. This project aims to develop the knowledge of soft tissue behaviour in needle insertion, a visual simulator for ultrasound image generation, and a robotic haptic system to emulate the tissue force feedback in needle insertion. With such a system a trainee surgeon can exercise needle insertion with realistic ultrasound images and realistic haptic feedback.
Second supervisor - Dr Mohsen Khadem, University of Edinburgh
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Khadem, M., Rossa, C., Usmani, N., Sloboda, R. S. & Tavakoli, M. , 2018, “Geometric control of 3D needle steering in soft-tissue”, Automatica, 101: 36-43.
Khadem, S., Rossa, C., Usmani, N., Sloboda, R. & Tavakoli, M., 2017, “Robotic-Assisted Needle Steering Around Anatomical Obstacles Using Notched Steerable Needles,” IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 22 (6): 1917-1928.
Carriere, J., Khadem, S., Rossa, C., Usmani, N., Sloboda, R. & Tavakoli, M., 2017, “Surgeon-in-the-Loop 3-D Needle Steering Through Ultrasound-Guided Feedback Control”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 3 (1): 469-476.