Abstract: In Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS), steerable flexible needles are commonly utilized as surgical tools to improve target-reaching accuracy. Nevertheless, challenges like tissue deformation, ...

The most advanced MLLMs (e.g. Gemini-1.5) still struggle to comprehend multimodal documents. All MLLMs exhibit poor performance on image needles. MLLMs fail to recognize the exact number of images in ...

Abstract: Needle intervention is widely employed in clinical practices, such as biopsies, regional anesthesia, blood sampling, neurosurgery, and brachytherapy. Traditional needle insertion relies on ...

Needle exchange programs give people access to clean syringes for drug use. Data show those programs have helped spread disease and protect law enforcement, but not everyone is in favor of an ...