Program 

Program schedule

The full program can be found here (last updated June 14th, 2024):

Accepted regular paper submissions

The following 50 submissions have been accepted for presentation at IPCAI'24 as regular papers:

#7 FF-ViT: Probe Orientation Refinement for Robot-assisted Endomicroscopy Tissue Scanning

Xu, Chi; Roddan, Alfie G; Xu, Haozheng; Giannarou, Stamatia

#10 Near-Real-Time Mueller Polarimetric Image Processing for Neurosurgical Intervention

Moriconi, Stefano; Rodriguez-Nunez, Omar; Gros, Romain; Felger, Leonard A.; Maragkou, Theoni; Hewer, Ekkehard; Pierangelo, Angelo; Novikova, Tatiana; Schucht, Philippe; McKinley, Richard

#11 Shape Completion in the Dark: Completing Vertebrae Morphology from 3D Ultrasound

Gafencu, Miruna-Alexandra; Azampour, Mohammad Farid; Velikova, Yordanka; Saleh, Mahdi; Ungi, Tamas; Wendler, Thomas; Navab, Nassir

#17 On-the-Fly Point Annotation for Fast Medical Video Labeling

MEYER, Adrien; Mazellier, Jean-Paul; DANA, Jérémy; Padoy, Nicolas

#18 Depth Over RGB: Automatic Evaluation of Open Surgery Skills Using Depth Camera

Zuckerman, Ido; Werner, Nicole ; Kouchly, Jonathan; Huston, Emma; DiMarco, Shannon; DiMusto, Paul; Laufer, Shlomi

#19 Surgical-DINO: Adapter Learning of Foundation Model for Depth Estimation in Endoscopic Surgery

Cui, Beilei; Islam, Mobarakol; Bai, Long; Ren, Hongliang

#22 Ultrasound Segmentation Analysis via Distinct and Completed Anatomical Borders

GONZALEZ DUQUE, VANESSA; Marquardt, Alexandra; Velikova, Yordanka; Lacourpaille, Lilian; Nordez, Antoine; Crouzier, Marion; Lee, Hong Joo; Mateus, Diana; Navab, Nassir

#26 Synchronising a Stereoscopic Surgical Video Stream using Specular Reflection

CHANDELON, Kilian; Bartoli, Adrien

#29 Stand in Surgeon’s Shoes: Virtual Reality Cross-training to Enhance Teamwork in Surgery

Killeen, Benjamin; Zhang, Han; Wang, William J; Rosen, Michael; Kleinbeck, Constantin; Taylor, Russ; Osgood, Greg; Unberath, Mathias

#34 A parameter-efficient framework for surgical action triplet recognition

Li, Yuchong; bai, bizhe; Jia, Fucang

#36 Flow Diverters Treatment Planning of Small- and Medium-sized Intracranial Saccular Aneurysms on the Internal Carotid Artery via Constraint-based Virtual Deployment

Liu, ZH; Zhang, Meng; Wang, Chao; Wang, Zhongxiao; Liao, Xiangyun; Ou, Chubin; Si, Weixin

#44 Vision-based Shape Sensing of Pneumatically Attachable Flexible Rails for Autonomous Control of an Ultrasound Probe for Intra-Operative Ultrasonography

McDonald-Bowyer, Aoife; Syer, Tom; Retter, Adam; Stoyanov, Danail; Stilli, Agostino

#45 Multi-modal MRI Segmentation of Key Structures for  Microvascular Decompression via Knowledge-Driven Mutual Distillation and Topological Constraints

Tu, renzhe; Zhang, Doudou; Li, Caizi; Xiao, Linxia; Zhang, Yong; Cai, Xiaodong; Si, Weixin

#46 AIxSuture: Vision-Based Assessment of Open Suturing Skills

Hoffmann, Hanna; Funke, Isabel; Peters, Philipp; Venkatesh, Danush Kumar; Egger, Jan; Rivoir, Dominik; Röhrig, Rainer; Hölzle, Frank; Bodenstedt, Sebastian; Willemer, Marie-Christin; Speidel, Stefanie; Puladi, Behrus

#47 Exploring Semantic Consistency in Unpaired Image Translation to Generate Data for Surgical Applications

Venkatesh, Danush Kumar; Rivoir, Dominik; Pfeiffer, Micha; Kolbinger, Fiona; Distler, Marius; Weitz, Jürgen; Speidel, Stefanie

#49 Take a Shot! Natural Language Control of Robotic X-ray Systems for Image-guided Surgery

Killeen, Benjamin; Chaudhary, Shreayan S; Osgood, Greg; Unberath, Mathias

#50 OneSLAM to Map Them All: A Universal Approach to SLAM for Endoscopic Imaging

Teufel, Timo M; Shu, Hongchao; Soberanis-Mukul, Roger D.; Mangulabnan, Jan Emily; Sahu, Manish; Vedula, Swaroop; Ishii, Masaru; Hager, Gregory D; Taylor, Russ; Unberath, Mathias

#51 An Endoscopic Chisel: Intraoperative Imaging Carves 3D Anatomical Models

Mangulabnan, Jan Emily; Soberanis-Mukul, Roger D.; Teufel, Timo M; Sahu, Manish; Porras, Jose; Vedula, Swaroop; Ishii, Masaru; Hager, Gregory D; Taylor, Russ; Unberath, Mathias

#52 EndoSRR: A Comprehensive Multi-Stage Approach for Endoscopic Specular Reflection Removal

li, wei; Jia, Fucang; Liu, Wenjian

#54 Cognitive Effort Detection for Tele-robotic Surgery via Personalized Pupil Response Modeling

Büter, Regine; Soberanis-Mukul, Roger D.; Ruiz Puentes, Paola; Shankar, Rohit; Ghazi, Ahmed; Wu, Jie Ying; Unberath, Mathias

#55 Neural Digital Twins: Reconstructing Complex Medical Environments for Spatial Planning in Virtual Reality

Kleinbeck, Constantin; Zhang, Han; Killeen, Benjamin; Roth, Daniel; Unberath, Mathias

#57 LensePro: Label Noise-Tolerant Prototype- Based Network for Improving Cancer Detection in Prostate Ultrasound with Limited Annotations

To, Minh Nguyen Nhat; Fooladgar, Fahimeh; Wilson, Paul F R; Harmanani, Mohamed; Gilany, Mahdi; Jamzad, Amoon; Sojoudi, Samira; Chang, Silvia; Black, Peter; Mousavi, Parvin; Abolmaesumi, Purang

#58 One model to use them all: Training a segmentation model with complementary datasets

Jenke, Alexander C; Bodenstedt, Sebastian; Kolbinger, Fiona; Distler, Marius; Weitz, Jürgen; Speidel, Stefanie

#59 An Interactive Task-Based Method for the Avoidance of Metal Artifacts in CBCT Scans

Rohleder, Maximilian A; Bullert, Benno; Thies, Mareike; Riedl, Sophie; Gierse, Jula; Privalov, Maxim; Mandelka, Eric; Vetter, Sven; Maier, Andreas K; Kreher, Björn

#63 Structured Light for Touchless 3D Registration in Video-based Surgical Navigation

Baptista, Tânia Sousa; Marques, Miguel; Raposo, Carolina; Ribeiro, Luís; Antunes, Michel; Barreto, Joao P.

#67 Multimodal Semi-Supervised Learning for Online Recognition of Multi-granularity Surgical Workflows

Yamada, Yutaro; Colan, Jacinto; Davila, Ana; Hasegawa, Yasuhisa

#68 Advancing Surgical VQA with Scene Graph Knowledge

YUAN, KUN; Kattel, Manasi; Bose, Rupak; Lavanchy, Joël L.; Navab, Nassir; Srivastav, Vinkle Kumar; Padoy, Nicolas

#69 Patient-specific reference model estimation for orthognathic surgical planning

Fang, Xi; Deng, Han; Kuang, Tianshu; Xu, Xuanang; Lee, Jungwook; Gateno, Jaime; Yan, Pingkun

#70 The distinct roles of reinforcement learning between pre-operative and intra-operative planning for prostate biopsy 

Gayo, Iani  JMB; Saeed, Shaheer Ullah; Bonmati, Ester; Barratt, Dean C; Clarkson, Matthew J; Hu, Yipeng

#71 Optimizing Latent Graph Representations of Surgical Scenes for Zero-Shot Domain Transfer

Satyanaik, Siddhant P; Murali, Aditya; Alapatt, Deepak; Wang, Xin; Mascagni, Pietro; Padoy, Nicolas

#72 Zero-shot Prompt-based Video Encoder for Surgical Gesture Recognition

Rao, Mingxing; Qin, Yihong; Kolouri, Soheil; Wu, Jie Ying; Moyer, Daniel C

#73 XRelevance-CAM: Towards Explainable Tissue Characterisation with Improved Localisation of Pathological Structures in Probe-based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy

You, Jianzhong; Ajiouni, Serine; Kakaletri, Irini; Charalampaki, Patra; Giannarou, Stamatia

#75 Realtime deformable SLAM with geometrically adapted template for dynamic monocular laparoscopic Scenes

Tang, Xuanshuang; Tao, Haisu; Qian, Yinling; Yang, Jian; Feng, Ziliang; Wang, Qiong

#76 Hierarchical Segmentation of Surgical Scenes in Laparoscopy

Mehta, Pritesh; Owen, David ; Grammatikopoulou, Maria; Culshaw, Lucy; Kerr, Karen; Stoyanov, Danail; Luengo, Imanol

#77 A Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning Strategy for Autonomous Guidewire Navigation

Scarponi, Valentina; Duprez, Michel; Nageotte, Florent; Cotin, Stephane

#81 ImSpect: Image-driven Self-supervised Learning for Surgical Margin Evaluation with Mass Spectrometry

Connolly, Laura; Fooladgar, Fahimeh; Jamzad, Amoon; Kaufmann, Martin; Syeda, Ayesha; Ren, Kevin Yi Mi; Abolmaesumi, Purang; Rudan, John; McKay, Doug; Fichtinger, Gabor; Mousavi, Parvin

#82 Robot-assisted biopsy sampling for online Raman spectroscopy cancer confirmation in the OR

Grajales, David O; Le, William T; Tran, Trang; David, Sandryne; Dallaire, Frédérick; Ember, Katherine; Leblond, Frederic; Ménard, Cynthia; Kadoury, Samuel

#86 Beyond the Manual Touch: Situational-aware Force Control for Increased Safety in Robot-assisted Skullbase Surgery

Ishida, Hisashi; Galaiya, Deepa; Nagururu, Nimesh; Creighton, Francis; Kazanzides, Peter; Taylor, Russ; Sahu, Manish

#87 Head Motion-Corrected Eye Gaze Tracking with the da Vinci Surgical System

Banks Gadbois, Alexandre L; Salcudean, Septimiu; Abdelaal, Alaa Eldin

#93 EndoViT: Pretraining Vision Transformers on a Large Collection of Endoscopic Images

Batic, Dominic; Holm, Felix; Özsoy, Ege; Czempiel, Tobias; Navab, Nassir

#97 An investigation into augmentation and preprocessing for optimising X-ray classification in limited datasets: A case study on Necrotising Enterocolitis

Nowak, Franciszek M; Yung, Ka W; Sivaraj, Jayaram; De Coppi, Paolo; Stoyanov, Danail; Loukogeorgakis, Stavros; Mazomenos, Evangelos B

#100 Enhancing Robotic Telesurgery with Sensorless Haptic Feedback

Yilmaz, Nural; Burkhart, Brendan; Deguet, Anton; Kazanzides, Peter; Tumerdem, Ugur

#102 Test-time augmentation with synthetic data addresses distribution shifts in spectral imaging

Qasim, Ahmad Bin & Motta, Alessandro; Studier-Fischer, Alexander; Sellner, Jan; Ayala, Leonardo; Huebner, Marco; Bressan, Marc; Özdemir, Berkin; Kowalewski, Karl-Friedrich; Nickel, Felix; Seidlitz, Silvia; Maier-Hein, Lena

#103 Evaluating the Impact of Reinforcement Learning on Automatic Deep Brain Stimulation Planning

Pantovic, Anja; Essert, Caroline

#105 Real-time Localization of Critical Anatomical Structures in Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery

Mao, Zhehua; Das, Adrito; Islam, Mobarakol; Khan, Dan; Williams, Simon; Hanrahan, John; Borg, Anouk; Dorward, Neil; Clarkson, Matthew J; Stoyanov, Danail; Marcus, Hani; Bano, Sophia

#107 Enhancing Surgical Instrument Segmentation: Integrating Vision Transformer Insights with Adapter

Wei, Meng; Vercauteren, Tom; Shi, Miaojing

#111 From quantitative metrics to clinical success: Assessing the utility of deep learning for tumor segmentation in breast surgery

Yeung, Chris; Ungi, Tamas; Hu, Zoe; Jamzad, Amoon; Kaufmann, Martin; Walker, Ross; Merchant, Shaila; Engel, Jay; Yeung, Chris; Rudan, John; Mousavi, Parvin; Fichtinger, Gabor

#112 Enabling Extracorporeal Ultrasound Imaging with the da Vinci Robot for Transoral Robotic Surgery - A Feasibility Study

Moore, Randy WJ; Yeung, Ryan; Chen, Wanwen; Zeng, Qi; Prisman, Eitan; Salcudean, Septimiu

#113 HyperMRI: Hyperspectral and magnetic resonance fusion methodology for neurosurgery applications 

Villa, Manuel; Sancho, Jaime; Rosa, Gonzalo; Chavarrias, Miguel; Juarez, Eduardo; Sanz, Cesar

#121 Comparing novel smartphone pose estimation frameworks with the Kinect V2 for knee tracking during athletic stress tests.

Babouras, Athanasios; Abdelnour, Patrik; Fevens, Thomas; Martineau, Paul

Accepted long abstract submissions

The following 10 submissions have been accepted for presentation at IPCAI'24 as long abstracts:

#124 Can surgical computer vision benefit from large-scale visual foundation models?

Rabbani, Navid; Bartoli, Adrien

#125 MRI-degad: Towards accurate conversion of gadolinium-enhanced T1w MRIs to non-contrast-enhanced scans using CNNs

Ogunsanya, Feyi; Taha, Alaa; Gilmore, Greydon; Kai, Jason; Lay, Jonathan; Khan, Ali; Kueh, Tristan; Thurairajah, Arun; Tenorio, Mauricio

#126 Preliminary Trials of Trackerless Augmented Reality in Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery

Espinel Lopez, Yamid; Lombion, Nalick; Compagnone, Luce; Saroul, Nicolas; Bartoli, Adrien

#129 Surgical-DeSAM: Decoupling SAM for Instrument Segmentation in Robotic Surgery

Sheng, Yuyang; Bano, Sophia; Clarkson, Matthew J; Islam, Mobarakol

#132 Investigation of Federated Learning Algorithms for Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Image Classification with Statistical Heterogeneity

Amgain, Sanskar; Shrestha, Prashant; Bano, Sophia; del Valle Torres , Ignacio; Cunniffe, Michael; Hernandez, Victor; Beales , Phil; Bhattarai, Binod

#133 LARLUS: Laparoscopic Augmented Reality from Laparoscopic Ultrasound

Kalantari, Mohammad Mahdi; Ozgur, Erol; Alkhatib, Mohammad; Buc, Emmanuel; Le Roy, Bertrand; Modrzejewski, Richard; Bartoli, Adrien

#136 Near-infrared Beacons: Tracking Anatomy with Bio-compatible Flourescent Dots for Mixed Reality Surgical Navigation

Gu, Wenhao; Opfermann, Justin; Knopf, Jonathan; Krieger, Axel; Unberath, Mathias

#137 Cognitive Load in Tele-Robotic Surgery: A Comparison of Eye Tracker Designs

Soberanis-Mukul, Roger D.; Ruiz Puentes, Paola; Acar, Ayberk; Gupta, Iris; Bhowmick, Joyraj; Li, Yizhou; Ghazi, Ahmed; Wu, Jie Ying; Unberath, Mathias

#139 Augmented Reality for Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Surgery Evaluating Design Factors with Neurosurgeons

Higa, Jennifer; Nkatha, Sonia; Ramirez Herrera , Roxana; Marcus, Hani; Yoo, Soojeoung; Blandford, Ann; Opie, Jeremy

#130 Query2: Query over Queries for Improving Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour Detection in an Endoscopic Ultrasound

He, Qi; Bano, Sophia; Huang, Jia; Liu, Wentian; Stoyanov, Danail; Zuo, Siyang

#131 Registration Sanity Check for AR-guided Surgical Interventions: Experience from Head and Face Surgery

Condino, Sara; Cutolo, Fabrizio; Carbone, Marina; Cercenelli, Laura; Badiali, Giovanni; Montemurro, Nicola; Ferrari, Vincenzo

#134 Optical Rules to Mitigate the Parallax-Related Registration Error in See-Through Head-Mounted Displays for the Guidance of Manual Tasks

Ferrari, Vincenzo; Cattari, Nadia; Condino, Sara; Cutolo, Fabrizio