Takashi Ueta
Papers
11
Total Citations
404
H-Index
8
About
Takashi Ueta is a pioneering researcher in the field of robot-assisted vitreoretinal surgery, a domain where his work has fundamentally advanced the precision and safety of delicate eye procedures. His primary research focuses on developing miniature parallel robots and master-slave teleoperation systems to assist surgeons in tasks like retinal vessel microcannulation—a procedure requiring drug injection into veins just 60-90 µm wide. Ueta’s major contributions include the design of a five-degree-of-freedom parallel robot (base diameter 76 mm) and quantitative comparisons showing robotic assistance outperforms manual techniques in accuracy and stability. His most-cited paper, “Robot-Assisted Vitreoretinal Surgery” (2009), has garnered 109 citations, while his 2009 work on a parallel robot for vitreoretinal surgery has 97 citations, underscoring his impact. Notably, his 2014 study using an eye model to quantify robotic microcannulation benefits (41 citations) and his 2025 evaluation of shared autonomy in surgical models (3 citations) highlight his ongoing innovation. Ueta’s work, including autonomous positioning via image processing and minimum-jerk trajectory generation, has set benchmarks for robotic eye surgery, making him a key figure in translating engineering solutions to clinical practice.
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Top Papers
- 1Robot-Assisted Vitreoretinal Surgery109 citations · 2009
- 2A parallel robot to assist vitreoretinal surgery97 citations · 2009
- 3Microsurgical robotic system for vitreoretinal surgery79 citations · 2011
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- 6Design and development of miniature parallel robot for eye surgery17 citations · 2014
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- 9Minimum-jerk trajectory generation for master-slave robotic system5 citations · 2012
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