Siobhan Rigby Oca

Journal article IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics · January 1, 2026 Robot-assisted ultrasound scanning promises to advance autonomous and accessible medical imaging. However, ensuring patient safety and compliant human-robot interaction during probe contact poses a significant challenge. Most existing systems either have h ... Full text Cite

Lessons Learned in Developing ROS Asynchronous Tutorials for Robotics course: Guided versus Inquiry based Learning

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2025 Robotics is a highly multidisciplinary area of study, with introduction to robotics taking many forms at different universities[1, 2, 3, 4]. ROS (Robot Operating System), a middleware package used in physical and simulated robotic systems and sensors is of ... Full text Cite

Case Study: Using Synthetic Datasets to Examine Bias in Machine Learning Algorithms for Resume Screening

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2025 The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in recruitment, particularly through resume screening algorithms, raises significant ethical concerns due to the potential for biased decision-making. This case study explores these issues by developing a ... Full text Cite

ETHICS-2025 Session B3 – Workshop: Engineering Education for an Ethical Future: Equipping Engineers for Emerging Technologies

Conference Ethics 2025 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering Science and Technology Emerging Technologies Ethics and Social Justice · January 1, 2025 This workshop focuses on ethics education with emergent technologies that emphasize the future role of engineers to responsibly innovate, develop, and deploy for various shareholders. Our team of Duke faculty from biomedical engineering, mechanical enginee ... Full text Cite

Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control for Volumetric Ablation in Robotic Laser Surgery

Conference Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · January 1, 2025 Laser-based surgical ablation relies heavily on surgeon involvement, restricting precision to the limits of human error and perception. The interaction between laser and tissue is governed by various laser parameters that control the laser irradiance on th ... Full text Cite

The Impact of External Human-Machine Interfaces on Pedestrian Crossing Intention

Conference IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication Ro Man · January 1, 2025 As autonomous vehicles (AVs) become more common in real-world crossing scenarios and their automation levels continue to increase, implicit driver-pedestrian communication cannot be relied on for pedestrian safety. To address this, future autonomous vehicl ... Full text Cite

Implementing and Using ROS in Undergraduate Robotics Curricula

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 23, 2024 This review aims to elucidate multiple options, challenges, and opportunities to incorporate ROS into undergraduate robotics courses. First, the importance of ROS in the robotics research and industry community is discussed as motivation to learn how to us ... Cite

Trust, Safety and Efficacy of Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound Vascular Imaging Collection on Human Subjects

Conference 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN) · 2024 Cite

Board 147: Work-in-Progress: The Effect of Summarizing a Research Article on Students' Area of Robotics Interest

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 25, 2023 Cite

Brain-Mimicking Phantom for Photoablation and Visualization.

Journal article Int Symp Med Robot · April 2023 While the use of tissue-mimicking (TM) phantoms has been ubiquitous in surgical robotics, the translation of technology from laboratory experiments to equivalent intraoperative tissue conditions has been a challenge. The increasing use of lasers for surgic ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Development and Testing of a Durable and Novel Breast Phantom for Robotic Autonomous Ultrasound Systems

Journal article Journal of Medical Robotics Research · December 1, 2022 For the safe and effective development of evolving autonomous medical robotic systems that traverse the surface of the body, like in breast ultrasound scans, developing phantoms that are durable and mechanically mimic human tissue is critical. In this work ... Full text Open Access Cite

Durable Breast Phantom with Geometric and Mechanical Properties approximating Human Tissue for Ultrasound Image and Robotic System Testing

Conference 2022 International Symposium on Medical Robotics Ismr 2022 · January 1, 2022 As robotic movement starts to play a larger role in medical procedures, like breast ultrasound collection, there is an increasing need for mechanically accurate and durable breast phantoms that still have effective imaging properties. In this paper we pres ... Full text Cite

Effect of language interpretation modality on throughput and mortality for critical care patients: A retrospective observational study.

Journal article J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open · August 2021 OBJECTIVE: Limited data exist describing possible delays in patient transfer from the emergency department (ED) as a result of language barriers and the effects of interpretation services. We described the differences in ED length of stay (LOS) before inte ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

A Novel Robotic System for Ultrasound-guided Peripheral Vascular Localization

Conference Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · January 1, 2021 In this paper, we present an autonomous RGBD and 2D ultrasound-guided robotic system for collecting 3D localized volumes of peripheral vessels. This compact design, with available commercial components, lends itself to platform utility throughout the human ... Full text Cite