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Ken GoldbergProfessor, UC Berkeley and UCSFVerified email at berkeley.edu
Sachin PatilFounding engineer @ IkeVerified email at ikerobotics.com
Robert J. Webster IIIProfessor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Otolaryngology, and Neuro and Urologic SurgeryVerified email at vanderbilt.edu
Allison OkamuraProfessor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford UniversityVerified email at stanford.edu
Luis G. TorresUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillVerified email at cs.unc.edu
Jur van den BergIke RoboticsVerified email at ikerobotics.com
Jean PouliotProfessor of Radiation Oncology, University od California San FranciscoVerified email at radonc.ucsf.edu
Sarthak MisraProfessor, University of Twente / University of Groningen and University Medical CenterVerified email at utwente.nl
Kris HauserAssociate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignVerified email at illinois.edu
Noah J. CowanProfessor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins UniversityVerified email at jhu.edu
James F. O'BrienProfessor of Computer Science, University of California BerkeleyVerified email at berkeley.edu
Wen SunMicrosoft Research NYCVerified email at cs.cmu.edu
Gregory ChirikjianProfessor of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore and Johns Hopkins UniversityVerified email at jhu.edu
Edgar LobatonNorth Carolina State UniversityVerified email at ncsu.edu
Michael BranickyProfessor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of KansasVerified email at ku.edu
Cenk BaykalPh.D. Student, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyVerified email at mit.edu
Thierry SimeonCNRS Research Director, LAAS (CNRS), 3AI ANITI (Univ. Toulouse)Verified email at laas.fr

Ron Alterovitz

Professor of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Robotics Motion Planning Medical Simulation


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Planning for steerable bevel-tip needle insertion through 2D soft tissue with obstacles R Alterovitz, K Goldberg, A Okamura Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE international conference on robotics and …, 2005	251	2005
The Stochastic Motion Roadmap: A Sampling Framework for Planning with Markov Motion Uncertainty. R Alterovitz, T Siméon, KY Goldberg Robotics: Science and systems 3, 233-241, 2007	250	2007
Motion planning under uncertainty using iterative local optimization in belief space J Van Den Berg, S Patil, R Alterovitz The International Journal of Robotics Research 31 (11), 1263-1278, 2012	228	2012
Motion planning under uncertainty for image-guided medical needle steering R Alterovitz, M Branicky, K Goldberg The International Journal of Robotics Research 27 (11-12), 1361-1374, 2008	186	2008
Interactive simulation of surgical needle insertion and steering N Chentanez, R Alterovitz, D Ritchie, L Cho, KK Hauser, K Goldberg, ... ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 papers, 1-10, 2009	178	2009
Robot-assisted needle steering KB Reed, A Majewicz, V Kallem, R Alterovitz, K Goldberg, NJ Cowan, ... IEEE robotics & automation magazine 18 (4), 35-46, 2011	156	2011
Distal bevel-tip needle control device and algorithm RJ Webster III, AM Okamura, NJ Cowan, G Chirikjian, KY Goldberg, ... US Patent 7,822,458, 2010	151	2010
Needle insertion and radioactive seed implantation in human tissues: Simulation and sensitivity analysis R Alterovitz, K Goldberg, J Pouliot, R Taschereau, IC Hsu 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No …, 2003	149	2003
Steering flexible needles under Markov motion uncertainty R Alterovitz, A Lim, K Goldberg, GS Chirikjian, AM Okamura 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems …, 2005	144	2005
Screw-based motion planning for bevel-tip flexible needles in 3D environments with obstacles V Duindam, R Alterovitz, S Sastry, K Goldberg 2008 IEEE international conference on robotics and automation, 2483-2488, 2008	126	2008
Simulating needle insertion and radioactive seed implantation for prostate brachytherapy R Alterovitz, J Pouliot, R Taschereau, ICJ Hsu, K Goldberg Studies in health technology and informatics, 19-25, 2003	126	2003
Registration of MR prostate images with biomechanical modeling and nonlinear parameter estimation R Alterovitz, K Goldberg, J Pouliot, ICJ Hsu, Y Kim, SM Noworolski, ... Medical physics 33 (2), 446-454, 2006	112	2006
Needle path planning and steering in a three-dimensional non-static environment using two-dimensional ultrasound images GJ Vrooijink, M Abayazid, S Patil, R Alterovitz, S Misra The International journal of robotics research 33 (10), 1361-1374, 2014	107	2014
Needle steering in 3-D via rapid replanning S Patil, J Burgner, RJ Webster, R Alterovitz IEEE Transactions on Robotics 30 (4), 853-864, 2014	107	2014
Robotic needle steering: Design, modeling, planning, and image guidance NJ Cowan, K Goldberg, GS Chirikjian, G Fichtinger, R Alterovitz, KB Reed, ... Surgical robotics, 557-582, 2011	101	2011
Three-dimensional motion planning algorithms for steerable needles using inverse kinematics V Duindam, J Xu, R Alterovitz, S Sastry, K Goldberg The International Journal of Robotics Research 29 (7), 789-800, 2010	99	2010
Motion planning for steerable needles in 3D environments with obstacles using rapidly-exploring random trees and backchaining J Xu, V Duindam, R Alterovitz, K Goldberg 2008 IEEE international conference on automation science and engineering, 41-46, 2008	99	2008
Integrated planning and image-guided control for planar needle steering KB Reed, V Kallem, R Alterovitz, K Goldberg, AM Okamura, NJ Cowan 2008 2nd IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and …, 2008	98	2008
Interactive motion planning for steerable needles in 3D environments with obstacles S Patil, R Alterovitz 2010 3rd IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and …, 2010	94	2010
Estimating probability of collision for safe motion planning under Gaussian motion and sensing uncertainty S Patil, J Van Den Berg, R Alterovitz 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 3238-3244, 2012	90	2012

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