The Johns Hopkins University

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.

Sanaria Inc.

Balazs Peter Vagvolgyi

Russell H Taylor

David Q Larkin

Simon Peter DiMaio

Christopher J Hasser

Gregory Donald Hager

Jin Ung Kang

Peter Kazanzides

Peter Louis Gehlbach

James Tahara Handa

Joshua Leven

Seth D Billings

Anton Deguet

Zachary Pezzementi

Raphael Sznitman

Stephen L Hoffman

Iulian Ioan Iordachita

Allison Mariko Okamura

Gregory Chirikjian

Jin Seob Kim

Tomonori Yamamoto

Sumana Chakravarty

Joshua D Davis

Can Kocabalkanli

Mengdi Xu

John S Chirikjian

Ting Da

Brian K Chirikjian

Michael Aaron Pozin

Shengnan Lu

Hongtao Wu

Henry Phalen

Systems and methods for providing a combined mosquito staging and dissection system are disclosed. The system can include a mosquito staging subsystem; a robotic pick-and-place station; and a dissection, extrusion, collection, and disposal subsystem. The subsystems can include one or more stations to provide orientation, decapitation, extrusion of salivary glands, and disposal of carcasses of the mosquitoes. The resident live sporozoites from the salivary glands can be used to produceSPZ-based vaccines.

Apparatus and method of use for an automated mosquito salivary gland extraction device

In one embodiment of the invention, a a minimally invasive surgical system is disclosed. The system configured to capture and display camera images of a surgical site on at least one display device at a surgeon console; switch out of a following mode and into a masters-as-mice (MaM) mode; overlay a graphical user interface (GUI) including an interactive graphical object onto the camera images; and render a pointer within the camera images for user interactive control. In the following mode, the input devices of the surgeon console may couple motion into surgical instruments. In the MaM mode, the input devices interact with the GUI and interactive graphical objects. The pointer is manipulated in three dimensions by input devices having at least three degrees of freedom. Interactive graphical objects are related to physical objects in the surgical site or a function thereof and are manipulatable by the input devices.

Interactive user interfaces for minimally invasive telesurgical systems

An observation system for viewing light-sensitive tissue includes an illumination system configured to illuminate the light-sensitive tissue, an imaging system configured to image at least a portion of the light-sensitive tissue upon being illuminated by the illumination system, and an image display system in communication with the imaging system to display an image of the portion of the light-sensitive tissue. The illumination system is configured to illuminate the light-sensitive tissue with a reduced amount of light within a preselected wavelength range compared to multispectral illumination light, and the image of the portion of the light-sensitive tissue is compensated for the reduced amount of light within the preselected frequency range to approximate an image of the light-sensitive tissue under the multispectral illumination.

Programmable multispectral illumination system for surgery and visualization of light-sensitive tissues

A surgical robot including an imaging system comprising at least one camera, a processor in communication with the imaging system, a manipulation system in communication with the processor, and a visual display in communication with the processor. The processor is operable to calculate a mechanical property estimate for an area of an environment based on an environment model of tool-environment interaction data, create a composite image comprising a mechanical property map of the mechanical property estimate overlaid on an environment image from the at least one camera, and output the composite image on the visual display.

Environment property estimation and graphical display

In one embodiment of the invention, a method for a minimally invasive surgical system is disclosed. The method includes capturing and displaying camera images of a surgical site on at least one display device at a surgeon console; switching out of a following mode and into a masters-as-mice (MaM) mode; overlaying a graphical user interface (GUI) including an interactive graphical object onto the camera images; and rendering a pointer within the camera images for user interactive control. In the following mode, the input devices of the surgeon console may couple motion into surgical instruments. In the MaM mode, the input devices interact with the GUI and interactive graphical objects. The pointer is manipulated in three dimensions by input devices having at least three degrees of freedom. Interactive graphical objects are related to physical objects in the surgical site or a function thereof and are manipulatable by the input devices.

Systems and methods for interactive user interfaces for robotic minimally invasive surgical systems

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Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Balazs Peter Vagvolgyi