JIGGLE: An Active Sensing Framework for Boundary Parameters Estimation in Deformable Surgical Environments

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Autori principali: Shinde, Nikhil Uday, Liang, Xiao, Liu, Fei, Zhang, Yutong, Richter, Florian, Herbert, Sylvia, Yip, Michael C.
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Shinde, Nikhil Uday
Liang, Xiao
Liu, Fei
Zhang, Yutong
Richter, Florian
Herbert, Sylvia
Yip, Michael C.
author_facet Shinde, Nikhil Uday
Liang, Xiao
Liu, Fei
Zhang, Yutong
Richter, Florian
Herbert, Sylvia
Yip, Michael C.
contents Surgical automation can improve the accessibility and consistency of life saving procedures. Most surgeries require separating layers of tissue to access the surgical site, and suturing to reattach incisions. These tasks involve deformable manipulation to safely identify and alter tissue attachment (boundary) topology. Due to poor visual acuity and frequent occlusions, surgeons tend to carefully manipulate the tissue in ways that enable inference of the tissue's attachment points without causing unsafe tearing. In a similar fashion, we propose JIGGLE, a framework for estimation and interactive sensing of unknown boundary parameters in deformable surgical environments. This framework has two key components: (1) a probabilistic estimation to identify the current attachment points, achieved by integrating a differentiable soft-body simulator with an extended Kalman filter (EKF), and (2) an optimization-based active control pipeline that generates actions to maximize information gain of the tissue attachments, while simultaneously minimizing safety costs. The robustness of our estimation approach is demonstrated through experiments with real animal tissue, where we infer sutured attachment points using stereo endoscope observations. We also demonstrate the capabilities of our method in handling complex topological changes such as cutting and suturing.
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spellingShingle JIGGLE: An Active Sensing Framework for Boundary Parameters Estimation in Deformable Surgical Environments
Shinde, Nikhil Uday
Liang, Xiao
Liu, Fei
Zhang, Yutong
Richter, Florian
Herbert, Sylvia
Yip, Michael C.
Robotics
Surgical automation can improve the accessibility and consistency of life saving procedures. Most surgeries require separating layers of tissue to access the surgical site, and suturing to reattach incisions. These tasks involve deformable manipulation to safely identify and alter tissue attachment (boundary) topology. Due to poor visual acuity and frequent occlusions, surgeons tend to carefully manipulate the tissue in ways that enable inference of the tissue's attachment points without causing unsafe tearing. In a similar fashion, we propose JIGGLE, a framework for estimation and interactive sensing of unknown boundary parameters in deformable surgical environments. This framework has two key components: (1) a probabilistic estimation to identify the current attachment points, achieved by integrating a differentiable soft-body simulator with an extended Kalman filter (EKF), and (2) an optimization-based active control pipeline that generates actions to maximize information gain of the tissue attachments, while simultaneously minimizing safety costs. The robustness of our estimation approach is demonstrated through experiments with real animal tissue, where we infer sutured attachment points using stereo endoscope observations. We also demonstrate the capabilities of our method in handling complex topological changes such as cutting and suturing.
title JIGGLE: An Active Sensing Framework for Boundary Parameters Estimation in Deformable Surgical Environments
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09743