About

Deukhee Lee is a leading researcher in medical robotics, with a focus on developing intelligent, non-invasive systems for diagnosis and therapy. Her work centers on three key areas: motion compensation for soft tissue, markerless surgical robotics, and the design of continuum robots. A major contribution is her pioneering work on intensity-based visual servoing using 4D ultrasound to compensate for physiological motion in soft tissue, a critical challenge for precision procedures (24 citations). She has also advanced neurosurgery by developing a markerless surgical robotic system for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) evacuation, replacing invasive stereotactic frames with a weighted Iterative Closest Point registration method (12 and 10 citations). Lee’s impact is further demonstrated by her work on expeditious design optimization of concentric tube robots using heat-shrink plastic, making these dexterous tools more accessible for minimally invasive surgery. Notably, she has explored the "technologizing and digitalizing" of medical professional skills, aiming to replicate expert techniques in robotic systems for non-invasive ultrasound theragnostics. Her research integrates diagnostics and therapy, with applications ranging from kidney stone extraction to endoscopic disc surgery, solidifying her reputation as an innovator in surgical robotics.

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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Intensity-based visual servoing for non-rigid motion compensation of soft tissue structures due to physiological motion using 4D ultrasound
24 citations · 2011
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2012 (3 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 30
🏛 Institutions: Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

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