About the Authors

Marco Caversaccio

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Hearing Research Laboratory, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Wilhelm Wimmer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wilhelm.wimmer@artorg.unibe.ch

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Hearing Research Laboratory, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Juan Anso

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Image-Guided Therapy, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Georgios Mantokoudis

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Nicolas Gerber

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliation Image-Guided Therapy, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Christoph Rathgeb

Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Hearing Research Laboratory, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Daniel Schneider

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Image-Guided Therapy, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Jan Hermann

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Image-Guided Therapy, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Franca Wagner

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Olivier Scheidegger

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Markus Huth

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Lukas Anschuetz

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Martin Kompis

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Tom Williamson

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Image-Guided Therapy, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Brett Bell

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Image-Guided Therapy, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Kate Gavaghan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Image-Guided Therapy, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Stefan Weber

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Image-Guided Therapy, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

S.W., B.B., and T.W. are inventors on the related patent EP2666248; K.G., J.A., and S.W. are inventors on the related patents EP16153033S. S.W., K.G., T.W., N.G., and J.A. are inventors of the related patent PCT/IB2017/055312. S.W. is cofounder, shareholder, and advisor to the board of CAScination AG (Bern, Switzerland), a company that is developing robotic cochlear implantation technology based on the presented system. Partial funding for this study was received from MED-EL GmbH. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.