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Overview

Russell H. Taylor is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields including Medicine, Engineering, and Computer Science. The scientist's work is notably concentrated in subfields such as Biomedical Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Surgery, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Aerospace Engineering.

The main topics covered by their research include Soft Robotics and Applications, Surgical Simulation and Training, Augmented Reality Applications, Anatomy and Medical Technology, Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization, Advanced Vision and Imaging, and Medical Imaging and Analysis.

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, reflecting a broad engagement with emerging technologies and medical applications. Notable publications include:

  • Combating COVID-19-The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases (2020, Science Robotics)
  • Revisiting Stereo Depth Estimation From a Sequence-to-Sequence Perspective with Transformers (2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision)
  • Accelerating Surgical Robotics Research: A Review of 10 Years With the da Vinci Research Kit (2021, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine)
  • Synthetic data accelerates the development of generalizable learning-based algorithms for X-ray image analysis (2023, Nature Machine Intelligence)
  • Concepts and Trends in Autonomy for Robot-Assisted Surgery (2022, Proceedings of the IEEE)

Frequent collaborators on their research projects include:

  • Mathias Unberath
  • Francis X. Creighton
  • Mehran Armand
  • Zhaoshuo Li
  • Manish Sahu

Russell H. Taylor's research has appeared frequently in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Otolaryngology

In addition to journal and conference papers, Taylor has published books through Springer Science+Business Media. One known title is Imaging Systems for GI Endoscopy, and Graphs in Biomedical Image Analysis, published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • System for manipulating movement of a surgical instrument with computer controlled brake

    Russell Highsmith Taylor;Yong-yil Kim

  • Medical robotics in computer-integrated surgery

    R.H. Taylor;D. Stoianovici

  • Automatic synthesis of fine-motion strategies for robots

    Tomás Lozano-pérez;Matthew T. Mason;Russell H. Taylor

  • The grand challenges of Science Robotics

    Guang Zhong Yang;Jim Bellingham;Pierre E. Dupont;Peer Fischer;Peer Fischer

  • Clouds, filaments and protostars: the Herschel Hi-GAL Milky Way

    S. Molinari;B. Swinyard;J. Bally;M. Barlow

  • A telerobotic assistant for laparoscopic surgery

    R.H. Taylor;J. Funda;B. Eldridge;S. Gomory

  • The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS). Science case and survey design

    M. Lacy;S.A. Baum;C.J. Chandler;S. Chatterjee

  • Medical robotics—Regulatory, ethical, and legal considerations for increasing levels of autonomy

    Guang Zhong Yang;James Cambias;Kevin Cleary;Eric Daimler

  • An image-directed robotic system for precise orthopaedic surgery

    R.H. Taylor;B.D. Mittelstadt;H.A. Paul;W. Hanson

  • Combating COVID-19-The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases.

    Guang-Zhong Yang;Bradley J. Nelson;Robin R. Murphy;Howie Choset

  • An open-source research kit for the da Vinci® Surgical System

    Peter Kazanzides;Zihan Chen;Anton Deguet;Gregory S. Fischer

  • Planning and execution of straight line manipulator trajectories

    Russell H. Taylor

  • A dexterous system for laryngeal surgery

    N. Simaan;R. Taylor;P. Flint

  • Surgical data science for next-generation interventions.

    Lena Maier-Hein;Swaroop S. Vedula;Stefanie Speidel;Nassir Navab;Nassir Navab

  • Methods and apparatus for registering CT-scan data to multiple fluoroscopic images

    Andre Pierre Gueziec;Peter Kazanzides;Russell H. Taylor

  • Design and Integration of a Telerobotic System for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Throat

    Nabil Simaan;Kai Xu;Wei Wei;Ankur Kapoor

  • Superfaces: polygonal mesh simplification with bounded error

    A.D. Kalvin;R.H. Taylor

  • Interactive user interfaces for minimally invasive telesurgical systems

    Simon P. DiMaio;Christopher J. Hasser;Russell H. Taylor;David Q. Larkin

  • Computer-Integrated Surgery: Technology and Clinical Applications

    Russell H. Taylor;Stephane Lavealle;Grigore C. Burdea;Ralph Mosges

  • Patient geometry-driven information retrieval for IMRT treatment plan quality control

    Binbin Wu;Francesco Ricchetti;Giuseppe Sanguineti;Misha Kazhdan

  • Augmented reality during robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy: toward real-time 3D-CT to stereoscopic video registration.

    Li Ming Su;Balazs P. Vagvolgyi;Rahul Agarwal;Carol E. Reiley

  • An Image-directed Robotic System For Precise Orthopaedic Surgery

    R.H. Taylor;H.A. Paul;B.D. Mittelstadt;W. Hanson

Frequent Co-Authors

Iulian Iordachita
Iulian Iordachita Johns Hopkins University
Gregory D. Hager
Gregory D. Hager Johns Hopkins University
Mehran Armand
Mehran Armand Johns Hopkins University
Peter Kazanzides
Peter Kazanzides Johns Hopkins University
Gabor Fichtinger
Gabor Fichtinger Queen's University
Emad M. Boctor
Emad M. Boctor Johns Hopkins University
Jin U. Kang
Jin U. Kang Johns Hopkins University
Nassir Navab
Nassir Navab Technical University of Munich
Louis L. Whitcomb
Louis L. Whitcomb Johns Hopkins University
Dan Stoianovici
Dan Stoianovici Johns Hopkins University

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