Interventional robotic systems have been deployed with all existing imaging modalities in an expansive portfolio of therapies and surgeries. Over the years, literature reviews painted a comprehensive portrait translation underlying technology from research to practice. While many these robots performed promisingly preclinical settings, only handful them managed evolve further, break through com...

We tackle the problem of segmenting an image into planes given user input. Using a supervised learning approach, we develop an algorithm that adjusts the user input towards true plane segmentations, under the restriction that images have vertical boundary lines. We begin by collecting images for the training set consisting of hallways, buildings, stairs, rooms, etc. Users are then asked to draw...

Chronic spine pain poses a peculiar diagnostic and therapeutic challenge due to multiple pain sources, overlapping clinical features and nonspecific radiological findings. Facet joint injection is an interventional pain management tool for facet-related spinal pain that can be effectively administered by a radiologist. This technique is the gold standard for identifying facet joints as the sour...

Medical robotics, Computer Assisted Surgery (CAS), Image-Guided Therapy (IGT) and the like emerged more than 20 years ago and it must be recognized that many advances have been made. Conferences, workshops, have been organized, scientific contributions, position papers and patents have been published, new academic societies have been launched and companies created all over the world to propose ...

I am pleased to see the publication of this very novel issue. It brings together in one volume the role modern imaging has to play in surgery and radiotherapy. Certainly in functional neurosurgery imaging has transformed the way it is performed. In its first blossoming in the 1950s, patients were fixed in a stereotactic frame, contrast was injected into the ventricles and x-rays were taken of t...