Florent Nageotte

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Florent Nageotte is a prominent researcher in the field of medical robotics, with a particular focus on flexible endoscopic systems, minimally invasive surgery, and robotic assistance for complex gastrointestinal procedures. His work has fundamentally advanced the development of telemanipulated robotic platforms designed to overcome the inherent limitations of conventional flexible endoscopes, enabling surgeons to perform intricate procedures such as endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) with greater precision and control. Among his most influential contributions is the development of the STRAS robotic system, a flexible platform enabling endoluminal and transluminal surgery with instrument triangulation — a significant leap forward in natural orifice surgical robotics. His research on physiological-motion tracking and multi-section endoscope control has further refined robotic assistance in clinical settings. Nageotte has also made noteworthy contributions to laparoscopic suturing planning and visual servoing-based path following, broadening the scope of autonomous surgical guidance. With his most cited paper alone garnering over 130 citations and a cumulative body of work exceeding 600 citations, Nageotte's research has had a measurable impact on the surgical robotics community, inspiring new generations of researchers working toward safer, more democratized minimally invasive surgical procedures.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   A Novel Telemanipulated Robotic Assistant for Surgical Endoscopy: Preclinical Application to ESD

   132 citations · 2017
2. 2
   Robotic Assistance to Flexible Endoscopy by Physiological-Motion Tracking

   94 citations · 2011
3. 3
   Endoluminal surgical triangulation 2.0: A new flexible surgical robot. Preliminary pre‐clinical results with colonic submucosal dissection

   54 citations · 2017
4. 4
   Introducing STRAS: A new flexible robotic system for minimally invasive surgery

   51 citations · 2013
5. 5
   Control of a multiple sections flexible endoscopic system

   47 citations · 2010
6. 6
   Stitching Planning in Laparoscopic Surgery: Towards Robot-assisted Suturing

   47 citations · 2009
7. 7
   Segmentation and Guidance of Multiple Rigid Objects for Intra-operative Endoscopic Vision

   40 citations · 2007
8. 8
   Improvements in the control of a flexible endoscopic system

   39 citations · 2012
9. 9
   Visual Servoing-Based Endoscopic Path Following for Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery

   37 citations · 2006
10. 10
    Democratizing Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection: Single-Operator Fully Robotic Colorectal Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection in a Pig Model

    35 citations · 2019

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