Abstract: Percutaneous needle-based procedures have replaced open surgeries in cancer treatments to perform the tasks with minimal invasiveness to the tissue. Precise placement of the needle at target positions in cancer diagnostic ...

Abstract: Today, several medical diagnosis and therapeutic cancer interventions are performed using needles via percutaneous surgical procedures. The success of these procedures highly depends on accurate placement of the needle tip ...

Abstract: The last decade has witnessed major progress in the field of minimally invasive and robotic-assisted surgeries. Needle insertion, a minimally invasive technique, has proven its efficacy in procedures such as brachytherapy, ...

Abstract: Needle insertion is used in many diagnostic and therapeutic percutaneous medical procedures such as brachytherapy, thermal ablations, and breast biopsy. Insufficient accuracy using conventional surgical cannulas motivated ...