Autonomous System in Medicine: Current Challenges in Design, Modeling, Perception, Control and Applications
IROS 2020 Full-day Workshop
October 25, 2020
Las Vegas, United States
Notes: This workshop is supported by the following RA-L special issue.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters – Special Issue
Autonomous System in Robotic Surgery: Current Challenges in Design, Modeling, Perception, Control and Applications
Call for Papers
Organizers:
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
University of Arkansas, USA
Guangdong University of Technology, China
The University of Tokyo, Japan
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Date: Full day workshop (25th October 2020)
Statement of objectives – Intended Audiences:
In recent years, autonomous systems in medicine have attracted growing research interests in an enormous scope of applications, especially in preoperative diagnosis and intraoperative surgical operation scenes. Autonomous systems can be utilized to assist human operations or perform remote procedures under the surgeon’s command. These systems typically are equipped with various sensory inputs which allow them to intelligently detect targets, recognize the intentions of the human teammates, perform specific surgical tasks with enhanced performance, and even interact in a complex environment where the system needs to understand and adapt to human behavior in a cognitive way.
However, due to the limited perception capacity of existing applications, such as awareness, comprehension, and understanding of the interacting scenario, the incapacity of recognizing the intentions of the human teammates and efficiently understanding human behavior, it is hard to guarantee security in complex environments. Some medical systems have a shortage of cognitive ability of reasoning, problem-solving, planning, abstract thinking, and complex idea comprehension so that they cannot adapt to the robot system according to human behavior. At the same time, the medical system lacking learning ability has a poor optimization without self-adjustment to hamper their spreading in practical applications and development.
Hence, how to integrate advanced designs, modeling, perception, learning, control, and cognition, which involve the highest levels of the imaginative ability to bring the multi-information together to create a novel solution, is an effective way to enhance the level of autonomy for the intelligent medical system. It is becoming an inspiring and promising topic to improve the performance of medicine.
This workshop aims at bringing together world-class researchers and experts in engineering and medicine to discuss the state-of-art research achievements and advances that contribute to the design of novel technologies for medical applications. By providing a comprehensive overview of the current progress in design, modeling, perception, control, this workshop will prompt the identification of existing open challenges and possible ways to the autonomous system for medicine.
Online Meeting Room (Zoom):
The meeting room will be available at 7:30am for morning section and 13:35pm for the afternoon section. You can also test it during coffee break at 10:20am. Use the link we sent to you on Monday: https://uark.zoom.us/j/8345794363?pwd=am02TnJTUU5mU2hEL0pTemd3YUtLUT09 [uark.zoom.us]
Meeting ID: 834 579 4363
Passcode: robot@2020
Workshop Program Schedule: (8:00AM - 17:00PM, Eastern Standard Time (New York Time) )
Opening and Introduction
8:00 ~ 8:15 AM: Welcome and Workshop Overview
Invited Talk
8:15 ~ 8:40 AM: Dr. Kevin Cleary
"Novel Body-Mounted MR-compatible Robot for Shoulder Arthrography and Back Pain "
8:40 ~ 9:05 AM: Prof. Jaydev P. Desai
"Flexible, Patient-Specific Robotic Systems for Surgical Interventions "
9:05 ~ 9:30 AM: Prof. Iulian Iordachita
"Safe Robot-assisted Retinal Surgery "
9:30 ~ 9:55 AM: Prof. Qi An
"Diagnosis System for Post-stroke Patients "
9:55 ~ 10:20 AM: Prof. Pietro Valdastri
"Autonomy in Robotic Colonoscopy "
10:20 ~ 10:35 AM: Coffee break
10:35 ~ 11:00 AM: Dr. Mahdi Tavakoli
"Robot-Clinician Collaboration for Semi-Autonomous Computer-Integrated Medicine"
11:00 ~ 11:25 AM: Prof. Shan Luo
"Visual and Tactile Sensing for Robotic-assisted Surgery"
11:25 ~ 11:50 AM: Prof. Alan Kuntz (lead) and Prof. Robert J. Webster III
"Targeted Therapy Delivery in the Lung: Semi-Autonomous Transbronchoscopic Needle Steering"
11:50 ~ 12:15 AM: Prof. Paolo Fiorini and Prof. Riccardo Muradore
"Embodied AI in robotic surgery: challenges, opportunities and initial results"
12:15 ~ 12:40 PM: Prof. Loris Fichera
"On the role of autonomy in robot-assisted laser surgery "
12:40 ~ 13:05 PM: Prof. Sarthak Misra
"Magnetically-actuated minaturiz systems"
13:05 ~ 14:05 PM: Lunch break
14:05 ~ 14:30 PM: Prof. Francesca Cordella
"Human-Robot shared control in surgical and assistive applications"
14:30 ~ 14:55 PM: Prof. Jun Ueda
"High-Precision Direct Cell Injection Robot in MRI "
14:55 ~ 15:20 AM: Prof. Ann Majewicz Fey
"Data-driven methods for Autonomous Guidance in Robot-Assisted Surgery "
15:20 ~ 15:45 PM: Prof. Nobuhiko Hata
"Clinical rationale of autonomous surgical robots - highlighted examples from clinical experience"
15:45 ~ 16:00 PM: Coffee break
Abstracts Pitch Session and Presentations
16:00 ~ 16:50 PM: Abstract Lighting Pitch Session
(1) "BIT-6NAZA Robot: Advanced Six Wheel-legged Robot with Electric Parallel Mechanism"
Authors: Jiehao Li, Junzheng Wang, Shoukun Wang and Jing Li
(2) "Imitation Learning for Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery with Kernelized Movement Primitives"
Authors: Yingbai Hu, Yi Liang, Longbin Zhang, Wenrui Wu, Mingchuan Zhou, Mingyue Feng and Alois Knoll
(3) "A novel human-like task execution framework for robots "
Authors: Xue-Er Wang, Tenghui Zhu, Weizhan Gao, Junhao Zhang and Wen-An Zhang
（4）"Telerobotic Ultrasound: Towards safer, precise and remote diagnosis of COVID-19 patients"
Authors: Deepak Raina, Suvayan Nandi, Subir Kumar Saha, Chetan Arora, Dr. Krithika Rangarajan and Dr. Chandrashekhara Sh
（5）"Lower-limb Joint Torque Prediction using Multi-Step Deep Learning Approach"
Authors: Longbin Zhang, Davit Soselia, Ruoli Wang and Elena M. Gutierrez-Farewik
（6）"A Pilot-study of Image In-painting for Enhanced Minimally Invasive Surgery "
Authors: Zhen Wang, Yonglun Xie, Zhongping Cao, Xuemei Guo and Guoli Wang
（7）"Hand Estimations with Multi-Sensor Fusion for Touchless Teleoperation "
Authors: Salih Ertug Ovur, Tommaso Da Col, Wen Qi, Hang Su, Elena De Momi and Giancarlo Ferrigno
（8）"Deep Learning based multi-sensor Architecture for ECG Patterns Monitoring during Daily Activity"
Authors: Wen Qi and Andrea Aliverti
（9）"Semi-Autonomous Remote Landmark Identification for Cricothyrotomy using Robotic Palpation "
Authors: Neel Shihora, Rashid Yasin, Ryan Walsh and Nabil Simaan
（10）"Investigation of Model-based Control Algorithms for Tension-feedback Flexible Instrument"
Authors: Guoqing Zhang and Long Wang
Panel discussion
16:50 ~ 17:00 PM: Panel discussion
Visitor Map
Call for Papers:
Workshop “Autonomous System in Medicine: Current Challenges in Design, Modeling, Perception, Control and Applications” at IROS 2020 invites submissions of posters. The goals of this workshop are to provide a platform to discuss existing challenges, new ideas and resources and disseminate the latest results.
FORMAT
Authors should submit an extended abstract (max 3 pages) as a PDF in the standard IEEE conference format, before the submission deadline specified below. Before the workshop, authors of the accepted posters are required to submit a one-page PPT to the organizer, and they will have 1 minute to orally introduce the poster at the workshop.
Live demos or videos are highly encouraged. Please communicate with the organizers if you need any help, for example, extra space, power, or equipment for your demo.
SCOPE
Topics of interest include but not limited to
Novel robots for medicine
Robot modeling
Control approaches to medical applications
Sensing and perception for medical applications
Imaging analysis for medical applications
Clinical applications and solutions in medicine
Integration of vision and tactile sensing for medical systems
Machine learning for medicine
SUBMISSION Instruction:
We welcome participants to submit extended abstracts to be presented as posters. The manuscript should be submitted through the EasyChair platform: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=2020irosasm. The submitted manuscript should be less than 2 pages in the IEEE conference proceeding format: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. The manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two reviewers and selected based on the novelty, contribution, relevance, technical clarity, and presentation. Accepted manuscripts will be available at the workshop homepage. The authors of the accepted manuscripts are expected to give a presentation of their work for 3-5 minutes. We will announce the details as soon as possible.
Feel Free to email organizers for your questions.