Introduction PEG feeding in patients with head and neck and upper GI cancers is known ... Gastropexy is an alternative technique which allows insertion of a gastrostomy tube with outside-in technique ...

Gastrostomy tube was replaced under direct vision into the stomach. There are various recognised complications of PEG tube insertion, including wound infection, tube migration, aspiration, gastric ...

In BBS there is a growth of the gastric mucosa over the inner bumper of the PEG tube, affecting 0.–% of PEG tubes. Options for the management of BBS include the insertion of a jejunal extension, ...

PyRep library is built on top of CoppeliaSim to facilitate prototyping in python. The goal is to train a robot to perform peg-in-hole insertion. The simulation environment is in CoppeliaSim. The ...

The performance of a full diagnostic upper endoscopy is imperative before PEG tube placement. Wolfsen and colleagues [10] found that 36% of patients scheduled for PEG tube placement had endoscopic ...

The data set we used is demonstrations (action at each time step and cooresponding images captued by the same third person view camera) of this robot arm performing peg insertion (these demonstrations ...