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Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) has become a popular hair transplanting method for solving male-pattern baldness problem. Manually harvesting hairs one by one, however, is a tedious and time-consuming job to doctors. We design an accurate hair harvesting robot with a novel and efficient end-effector which consists of one digital microscope and a punch device. The microscope is first employed to automatically localize target hairs and then guides the punch device for harvesting after shifting. The end-effector shows average bias and precision of 0.014 mm by virtue of a rotary guidance design for the motorized shifting mechanism.
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Lin, X., Nakazawa, T., Yasuda, R., Kobayashi, E., Sakuma, I., Liao, H. (2011). Robotic Hair Harvesting System: A New Proposal. In: Fichtinger, G., Martel, A., Peters, T. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2011. MICCAI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6891. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23623-5_15
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