Feasibility of a lung airway navigation system using fiber-Bragg shape sensing and artificial intelligence for early diagnosis of lung cancer.

Currently early diagnosis of malignant lesions at the periphery of lung parenchyma requires guidance of the biopsy needle catheter from the bronchoscope into the smaller peripheral airways via harmful X-ray radiation. Previously, we developed an image-guided system, iMTECH which uses electromagnetic...

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Main Authors: Lucian Gheorghe Gruionu, Anca Loredana Udriștoiu, Andreea Valentina Iacob, Cătălin Constantinescu, Răzvan Stan, Gabriel Gruionu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277938