08:30-08:40 Opening & Welcome

08:40-09:10 Keynote Talk 1 - Daguang Xu (AI-Infra, NVIDIA)

Title: How To Bridge The Healthcare Robotic Data Gap

09:10-09:40 Keynote Talk 2 - Xiaojun Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Title: AI-based medical image computing, surgical navigation and its clinical application

09:40-10:10 Keynote Talk 3 - Jie Ying Wu (Vanderbilt University)

Title: Augmented Reality to Enhance Collaboration in the Operating Room

10:10-10:30 Poster Session & Coffee Break

10:30-11:00 Keynote Talk 4 - Xiuyuan Chen (Peking University)

Title: From preoperative planning to intraoperative guidance, the role of 3D reconstruction in thoracic surgery

11:00-11:30 Keynote Talk 5 - Danail Stoyanov (University College London)

Title: Perspective on the challenges of taking surgical AI research to the patient

11:30-12:00 Oral Session

Oral 1: Real-Time Surgical Keypoint Detection in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

- Yiyang You (Optosurgical LLC); De Ru Tsai (Optosurgical LLC); Yoseph  Kim (Optosurgical LLC); Antony  Goldenberg (Johns Hopkins University); Juo Tung  Chen (Johns Hopkins University); Ji Woong  Kim (Stanford University); Axel  Krieger (Johns Hopkins University); Richard Jaepyeong  Cha (Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Hospital)

Presenter: Richard Jaepyeong Cha 

Oral 2: Nested ResNet: A Vision-Based Method for Detecting the Sensing Area of a Drop-in Gamma Probe

- Songyu Xu (University College London); Yicheng Hu (Imperial College London); Jionglong Su (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University); Daniel Elson (Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery); Baoru Huang (University of Liverpool)

Presenter: Baoru Huang

Oral 3: Temporally Stable Monocular Depth Estimation in Surgical Vision

- Jialang Xu (University College London); Emanuele Colleoni (Medtronic); Nicolas Toussaint (Medtronic); Muhammad Asad (Medtronic); Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla (Medtronic); Evangelos Mazomenos (University College London); Imanol Luengo (Medtronic); Danail Stoyanov (University College London)

Presenter: Jialang Xu

Oral 4: Towards Robust Surgical Automation via Digital Twin Representations from Foundation Models

- Hao Ding, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Hongchao Shu, Grayson Byrd, Han Zhang, Pu Xiao, Juan Antonio Barrag, Russell Taylor, Peter Kazanzides, and Mathias Unberath

(Johns Hopkins University)

Presenter: Mathias Unberath

Oral 5: Mitigating Biases in Surgical Operating Rooms with Geometry

- Tony Wang (Technical University of Munich); Tobias Czempiel (University College London); Christian Heiliger (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich); Nassir Navab (Technical University of Munich); Lennart Bastian (Technical University of Munich)

Presenter: Tony Danjun Wang

Oral 6: X-RAFT: Cross-Modal Non-Rigid Registration of Blue and White Light Neurosurgical Hyperspectral Images

- Charlie Budd, Silvère Ségaud, Matthew Elliot, Graeme Stasiuk, Yijing Xie, Jonathan Shapey, and Tom Vercauteren

(King's College London)

Presenter: Charlie Budd

12:00-12:15 Award Section & Closing Remarks

Poster Presentation:

Please refer to the following paper ID for pinning the posters (not the ID in the CMT)

Paper 1

Towards MR-Based Trochleoplasty Planning (Full Research Paper)

- Michael Wehrli (University of Basel); Alicia Durrer (University of Basel); Paul Friedrich (University of Basel); Sidaty El Hadramy (University of Basel); Edwin Li (Kantonsspital Olten); Luana Brahaj (University of Basel); Carol-Claudius Hasler (University Children's Hospital of Basel); Philippe Claude Cattin (University of Basel)

Paper 2

Surgical Key Step Recognition with Global-Local Modeling Mamba in Laparoscopic Pulmonary Lobectomy (Full Research Paper)

- Fengyue Guo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Chengkun Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Yonghao Long (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Jialun Pei (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Mengya Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Ziling He (Jinan University ); Bin Peng (Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shenzhen People's Hospital); Guangsuo Wang (Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shenzhen People's Hospital); Qi Dou (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Paper 3

Towards Robust Surgical Automation via Digital Twin Representations from Foundation Models (Full Research Paper)

- Hao Ding; Lalithkumar  Seenivasan; Hongchao Shu; Grayson Byrd; Han Zhang; Pu Xiao; Juan Antonio Barra; Russell H. Taylor; Peter Kazanzides; Mathias Unberath

(Johns Hopkins University)

Paper 4

Gastro29 and ISSAS: a Multi-level Gastrectomy Video Dataset and Interactive SAM2-based Smart Annotation System for Surgical Scene Understanding (Extended Abstract)

- Qixiang Ma; Siew Fung HAU; Wing Yin Ng; Litao Zhao; Yiyi Zhang; Yu Zhu; Qi Dou; Pheng-Ann Heng; Shannon Melissa Chan; Zheng Li

(The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Paper 5

Semantic Scene Editing for Cholecystectomy Surgery (Full Research Paper)

- Çağhan Köksal, Yousef Yeganeh, Nassir Navab, Azade Farshad

(Technical University of Munich)

Paper 6

A Training-Free Approach for 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Sinus Endoscopy (Full Research Paper)

- Jan Emily Mangulabnan; Roger D. Soberanis-Mukul; Lalithkumar Seenivasan; S. Swaroop Vedula; Masaru Ishii ; Gregory Hager; Russell H. Taylor; Mathias Unberath

(Johns Hopkins University)

Paper 7

TrackOR: Towards Personalized Intelligent Operating Rooms Through Robust Tracking (Full Research Paper)

- Tony Wang (Technical University of Munich); Christian Heiliger (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich); Nassir Navab (Technical University of Munich); Lennart Bastian (Technical University of Munich)

Paper 8

CryoFlow: Prediction of Frozen Region Growth in Kidney Cryoablation Using a 3D Flow-Matching (Full Research Paper)

- Siyeop Yoon (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School); Yujin Oh (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School); Matthew Tivnan (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School); Sifan Song (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School); Pengfei Jin (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School); Sekeun Kim (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School); Dufan  Wu (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School); Hyun Jin Cho (Chungnam National University Hospital, Chungnam National University College of Medicine); Raul Uppot (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School); Quanzheng  Li (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School)

Paper 9

Temporally Stable Monocular Depth Estimation in Surgical Vision (Full Research Paper)

- Jialang Xu (University College London); Emanuele Colleoni (Medtronic); Nicolas Toussaint (Medtronic); Muhammad Asad (Medtronic); Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla (Medtronic); Evangelos Mazomenos (University College London); Imanol Luengo (Medtronic); Danail Stoyanov (University College London)

Paper 10

Mitigating Biases in Surgical Operating Rooms with Geometry (Extended Abstract)

- Tony Wang (Technical University of Munich); Tobias Czempiel (University College London); Christian Heiliger (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich); Nassir Navab (Technical University of Munich); Lennart Bastian (Technical University of Munich)

Paper 11

Surgical Flow Masked Autoencoder for Event Recognition (Extended Abstract)

- Mayar Mostafa (Technical University of Munich); Anna Alperovich (Carl Zeiss AG); Dmitrii Fedotov (Carl Zeiss AG); Ghazal Ghazaei (Carl Zeiss AG); Stefan Saur (Carl Zeiss Meditec AG); Azade Farshad (Technical University of Munich); Nassir Navab (Technical University of Munich)

Paper 12

Real-Time Surgical Keypoint Detection in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (Full Research Paper)

- Yiyang You (Optosurgical LLC); De Ru Tsai (Optosurgical LLC); Yoseph  Kim (Optosurgical LLC); Richard Jaepyeong  Cha (Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Hospital); Axel  Krieger (Johns Hopkins University); Antony Goldenberg (Johns Hopkins University); Juo Tung Chen (Johns Hopkins University); Ji Woong Kim (Stanford University)

Paper 13

When Tracking Fails: Analyzing Failure Modes of SAM2 for Point-Based Tracking in Surgical Videos (Full Research Paper)

- Woowon Jang (Ghent University Global Campus); Jiwon Im (Ghent University Global Campus); Juseung Choi (Ghent University Global Campus); Niki Rashidian (Ghent University Global Campus); Wesley De Neve (Ghent University Global Campus); Utku Ozbulak (Ghent University Global Campus)

Paper 14

Deep Biomechanically-Guided Interpolation for Keypoint-Based Brain Shift Registration (Full Research Paper)

- Tiago Assis (University of Lisbon); Ines Prata Machado (University of Cambridge); Benjamin Zwick (The University of Western Australia); Nuno Cruz Garcia (University of Lisbon); Reuben Dorent (Inria)

Paper 15

Nested ResNet: A Vision-Based Method for Detecting the Sensing Area of a Drop-in Gamma Probe (Full Research Paper)

- Songyu Xu (University College London); Yicheng Hu (Imperial College London); Jionglong Su (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University); Daniel Elson (Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery); Baoru Huang (University of Liverpool)

Paper 16

Video Grounded Conversation Generation for Reference Surgical Instrument Segmentation (Full Research Paper)

- Yihan Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Qiao Yan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Lihao Liu (Amazon); Yuchen Yuan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Xiaowei Hu (South China University of Technology); Jinpeng Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Pheng-Ann Heng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Paper 17

Multi-stage CNN for fast registration of 3D preoperative CTs to 2D intraoperative X-rays (Full Research Paper)

- Federica Facente (Université Côte d’Azur); Benjamin Billot (Université Côte d’Azur); Vivek Gopalakrishnan (MIT); Manasi Kattel (Université Côte d’Azur); Wen Wei (Caranx-medical); Polina Golland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Herve Delingette (Université Côte d’Azur); Nicholas Ayache (Université Côte d’Azur); Pierre Berthet-Rayne (Caranx Medical)

Paper 18

Tumor Size Estimation in Monocular Laparoscopic Video by Geometric Modeling of a Reference Object (Extended Abstract)

- Robbe De Muynck; Seyed Amir Mousavi; Francesca Tozzi; Nikdokht Rashidian; Wouter Willaert; Wesley De Neve

(Ghent University)

Paper 19

X-RAFT: Cross-Modal Non-Rigid Registration of Blue and White Light Neurosurgical Hyperspectral Images (Full Research Paper)

- Charlie Budd; Silvere Seguad; Matthew Elliot; Graeme Stasiuk; Yijing Xie; Jonathan Shapey; Tom Vercauteren

(King's College London)

Paper 20

Cardio-Respiratory Motion Estimation and Coronary Artery Segmentation for Image-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (Full Research Paper)

- Debarghya China; Gayoung Kim; Nitya Iyer; Ryan McGovern; Ali Uneri; Junghoon Lee

(Johns Hopkins University)

Paper 21

Arachnoid Membrane Segmentation in Intraoperative Microscopic MVD Surgery Scenes (Full Research Paper)

- Jinhee Lee (Bongseng Memorial Hospital); Hwanhee Lee (Bongseng Memorial Hospital); Jay J. Park (Stanford University); Jeong Woo  Ahn (Bongseng Memorial Hospital); Jong Yun Kwon (Bongseng Memorial Hospital); Ciara McMahon (The University of Edinburgh); Julia Lewandowski (Stanford University); Seohee Park (Stanford University); Sanghoon Lee (Bongseng Memorial Hospital); Vivek P. Buch (Stanford University)

Paper 22

When Imitation Learning Outperforms Reinforcement Learning in Surgical Action Planning (Full Research Paper)

- Maxence Boels, Harry Robertshaw, Thomas C Booth,; Prokar Dasgupta, Alejandro Granados, Sebastien Ourselin

(King's College London)

Paper 23

HieraSurg: Hierarchy-Aware Diffusion Model for Surgical Video Generation (Extended Abstract)

- Diego Biagini (Technical University of Munich); Nassir Navab (Technical University of Munich); Azade Farshad (Technical University of Munich)

Paper 24

Temporal Propagation of Asymmetric Feature Pyramid for Surgical Scene Segmentation (Full Research Paper)

- Cheng Yuan; Yutong Ban

(Shanghai Jiao Tong University)