Extend-Abstract Submissions

Accepted Abstracts

No. Title and Author(s)

I-1 TIMS: A Tactile Internet-Based Micromanipulation System with Haptic Guidance for Surgical Training

Author(s): Jialin Lin, Xiaoqing Guo, Wen Fan, Wei Li, Yuanyi Wang, Jiaming Liang, Weiru Liu, Lei Wei, Dandan Zhang

I-2 Design and Evaluation of MR-compatible Robotic System for Pulmonary Artery Catheterization

Author(s): Yaxi Wang, Vivek Muthurangu, and Helge A. Wurdemann

I-3 Magnetic Micro-Catheter System with Medical Imaging-Guided Navigation for Accelerated Thrombolysis

Author(s): Lidong Yang, Moqiu Zhang, Li Zhang

I-4 Enabling focused ultrasound surgery with robotics and artificial intelligence

Author(s): Andrea Mariani, Laura Morchi, Selene Tognarelli, Arianna Menciassi

I-5 Development of 4 mm Miniature Grasper for Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery

Author(s): Wee Shen Ng, and Kwok Wai Samuel Au

I-6 "Levitated" by Tension: A Soft Tensegrity Joint with Variable Stiffness for Compliant Manipulators

Author(s): Yifeng Hao, Xiaomei Wang, Xiaoqi Song, Yingqi Li, Henry Fu, Alex P.W. Lee, Kenneth M.C. Cheung, James Lam, Ka-Wai Kwok

I-7 Advancements in Bioinspired Catheter for Neurosurgical Interventions

Author(s): Ayhan Aktas, Ali Anil Demircali, Riccardo Secoli, Burak Temelkuran, Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena

I-8 A Novel Articulated Bone Cutting Tool for Craniosynostosis Surgery

Author(s): Jones Law, Dale Podolsky

I-9 Autonomous Intracorporeal Ultrasound Navigation using the da Vinci Research Kit

Author(s): Nils Marahrens, Bruno Scaglioni, Dominic Jones, Raj Prasad, Chandra Shekhar Biyani and Pietro Valdastri

I-10 Design and Evaluation of a Novel Eye Mountable Robot for Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty (DALK)

Author(s): Justin D. Opfermann, Yaning Wang, Jesse Haworth, James Kaluna, William Gensheimer, Jin U. Kang, Axel Krieger

II-1 Augmented Reality and Shared Control Framework for Robot-Assisted Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy

Author(s): Junling Fu, Matteo Pecorella, Maria Chiara Palumbo, Elisa Iovene, Alberto Rota, Domenico Riggio, Ilaria Burzo, Alberto Redaelli, Giancarlo Ferrigno, Elena De Momi

II-2 Autonomous Needle Navigation in Subretinal Injection using iOCT

Author(s): Peiyao Zhang, Ji Woong Kim, Peter Gehlbach, Iulian Iordachita, and Marin Kobilarov

II-3 Autonomous Robotic Manipulation of Soft Human Tissues with 3D Point Cloud Feedback

Author(s): Junlei Hu, Dominic Jones, Pietro Valdastri

II-4 Multi-Modal AI-Based Human-Robot Interaction Framework for Surgical Robots

Author(s): Yisen Huang, Jixiu Li, Wing Yin Ng, Philip Wai Yan Chiu, Zheng Li

II-5 Event-Triggered MPC for MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment

Author(s): Bohao Zhu, James Lam, Jing Dai, Mengjie Wu, Xiaomei Wang, Yingqi Li, Tianquan Tang, Liyuan Liang, Hing-Chiu Chang, Joe King-Man Fan, Lixi Huang, Ka-Wai Kwok

II-6 Machine Learning-Enabled Real-Time MRI-guided Acoustic Trapping

Author(s): Mengjie Wu, Jing Dai, Xiaomei Wang, Yingqi Li, Bohao Zhu, Liyuan Liang, Hing-Chiu Chang, Joe King-Man Fan, Xiaochen Xie, Ka-Wai Kwok

II-7 Learning-based Rapid Phase-aberration Correction for MR-guided Focused Ultrasound

Author(s): Jing Dai, Xiaomei Wang, Bohao Zhu, Mengjie Wu, Liyuan Liang, Joe King-Man Fan, Hing-Chiu Chang, Xiaochen Xie, Ka-Wai Kwok

II-8 Towards Vision-based Autonomous Steering of A Miniature Eversion Growing Robot

Author(s): Zicong Wu, S.M.Hadi Sadati, Kawal Rhode, and Christos Bergeles

II-9 Deep Learning Guided Autonomous Surgery: Guiding Small Needles into Sub-Millimeter Scale Blood Vessels

Author(s): Ji Woong Kim, Peiyao Zhang, Peter Gehlbach, Iulian Iordachita, Marin Kobilarov

II-10 Robotic autonomous laser microsurgery system

Author(s): Shunlei Li, M. A. Azam, Ajay Gunalan, Leonardo S. Mattos and Darwin G. Caldwell

III-1 Validation of cross-modality trained needle detector for US-guided interventions with clinical data

Author(s): Visar Arapi, Thomas Kau, Stephan Weiss, Jan Steinbrener

III-2 Real-time Detection and Tracking of Surgical Instrument Based on YOLOv5 and DeepSORT

Author(s): Youqiang Zhang, Minhyo Kim, and Sangrok Jin

III-3 Tissue Classification with Multimodal Smart Grasper Instrument

Author(s): Yana Sosnovskaya, Eric Chang, Shaheryar Hasnain, Blake Hannaford, Eli Shlizerman, Mika N. Sinanan

III-4 Stereo vision-based tissue deformation recovery with enhanced robustness to occlusion towards automatic soft tissue manipulation

Author(s): Jiahe Chen, Kazuaki Hara, Etsuko Kobayashi, Ichiro Sakuma, Naoki Tomii

III-5 Real-Time Constrained Pose Tracking of An In-Hand Suture Needle with Robust Uncertainty Estimation for Autonomous Robotic Surgery

Author(s): Zih-Yun Chiu; Florian Richter; Michael C. Yip

III-6 Metrics to Estimate Uncertainty and Communication of Competence Within Human-Robot Teams for Surgery

Author(s): Niveditha Kalavakonda, Blake Hannaford

III-7 3D Utrasound Reconstruction and Visualization Tool

Author(s): Cecilia Morales, Hao Chen, Jason Yao, Artur Dubrawski

III-8 Fallacy of Human Judgement: Estimating effects of over-reliance on AI for Data Annotation

Author(s): Niveditha Kalavakonda, Blake Hannaford

III-9 Relational Reasoning in VQA Models for Visual Question Answering in Robotic Surgery

Author(s): Gokun Kannan, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Hongliang Ren

III-10 Domain Adaptive Sim-to-Real Segmentation of Oropharyngeal Organs Towards Robot-assisted Intubation

Author(s): Guankun Wang, Tian-Ao Ren, Jiewen Lai, Long Bai, Hongliang Ren

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Xiaomei Wang (wangxmei@connect.hku.hk).

This workshop calls for extended abstract submissions (maximum 2 pages) of late-breaking results or newly published papers for sharing. The abstract should consist of text, figures, and references, and be submitted in PDF.

Template reference: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ds0cesj3pcmujmz/template-a4.docx?dl=0

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 April 2023 10 April 2023

Acceptance Notification: 20 April 2023


All accepted extended abstracts should be demonstrated in the format of posters during the workshop. Besides, one author of each accepted abstract will give a 2-min on-stage presentation. Please note that the 2-page extended abstract will be made available for selected submissions on this workshop webpage.

Please note that the poster boards are 950mm wide x 2340mm high. We recommend going no larger than A0 in portrait orientation. Please print your poster in advance and bring it to the workshop.


Disclaimer: The authors still retain the copyrights for their submissions, which means that the author has full control over the work (e.g., retains the right to republish to conferences/journals, reuse, etc.).