Image-Guided Interventional Robotics: Lost in Translation?

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1http://www.di.unito.it/∼tutreeb/ Italian Treebank2 (VIT), and the ISST3. None of them is comparable in size with the English Penn Treebank. This limits the possibility to have reliable induced grammars for Italian. Initial studies have shown that probabilistic grammars induced on a small corpus have not impressive performances [5]. Building larger corpora is then needed. We have been working o...

Surgical and Interventional Robotics

T wo decades after the first reported robotic surgical procedure [1], surgical robots are just beginning to be widely used in the operating room or interventional suite. The da Vinci telerobotic system (Intuitive Surgical, Inc.), for example, has recently become more widely employed for minimally invasive surgery [2]. This article, the first in a three-part series, examines the core concepts un...

Image-guided surgery and medical robotics in the cranial area

Surgery in the cranial area includes complex anatomic situations with high-risk structures and high demands for functional and aesthetic results. Conventional surgery requires that the surgeon transfers complex anatomic and surgical planning information, using spatial sense and experience. The surgical procedure depends entirely on the manual skills of the operator. The development of image-gui...

Lost in translation

Political groups, civil organizations, the media and private citizens increasingly question the validity of scientific findings about challenging issues such as global climate change, and actively resist the application of new technologies, such as GM crops. By using new communication technologies, these actors can reach out to many people in real time, which gives them a huge advantage over th...