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of devices and control systems that connect information to
physical action in a manner appropriate for a medical
procedure, and 4) the incorporation of human user input in
a natural way.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank current and former collaborators on
this project for their contributions: Dr. Greg Chirikjian,
Dr. Gabor Fichtinger, Dr. Michael Choti, Dr. Danny Song,
Dr. K. T. Ramesh, Dr. Russell Taylor, Dr. Robert Webster,
Dr. Wooram Park, Dr. Jin Seob Kim, Dr. Vincent Duindam, Dr. Jijie Xu, Dr. Kris Hauser, Dr. Sarthak Misra, John
Swensen, and Thomas Wedlick.
This work is supported in part by the National
Institutes of Health under grants R21-EB003452, R01EB006435, F32-CA124138, and R21-EB011628. This work
was performed at The Johns Hopkins University and the
University of California at Berkeley.

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