Control of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Catheters in Unknown Environments: Exploring the Potential of Deep Learning and Augmented Reality

Cardiovascular disease is currently one of the biggest threats to health. Specific types of cardiovascular disease include, but are not limited to, coronary artery disease, cardiac valve disorders, or peripheral arterial disease. The current gold standard for managing these conditions incorporates the use of catheters and guidewires for...

Deep-Learning-Based Compliant Motion Control of a Pneumatically-Driven Robotic Catheter

In cardiovascular interventions, when steering catheters and especially robotic catheters, great care should be paid to prevent applying too large forces on the vessel walls as this could dislodge calcifications, induce scars or even cause perforation. To address this challenge, this paper presents a novel compliant motion control algorithm...

Hysteresis Modeling of Robotic Catheters based on Long Short-Term Memory Network for Improved Environment Reconstruction

Catheters are increasingly being used to tackle problems in the cardiovascular system. However, positioning precision of the catheter tip is negatively affected by hysteresis. To ensure tissue damage due to imprecise positioning is avoided, hysteresis is to be understood and compensated for. This work investigates the feasibility to model...