Program

Program

The program for the workshop is listed as follows:

Time Talk

9:00 - 9:10 Di Wu, Workshop overview and introduction

9:10 - 9:30 Iulian Iordachita, AI-Based Technology for Safe Robt-Assisted Retinal Surgery

9:30 - 9:50 Paolo Fiorini, Some useful use of Machine Learning in Robotic Surgery: the findings of the ARS project

9:50 - 10:10 Emmanuel Vander Poorten, Advanced Proprioceptive Sensing of Flexible Surgical Robots

10:10 - 10:30 Poster pitch session 1 (Rehabilitation and medical imaging) (merged to afternoon session)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break & Interactive poster session (update: reduced to 5 mins)

11:20 - 11:40 Mitsuhiro Hayashibe, Human-like Motor Control in Redundancy through Deep Reinforcement Learning

11:40 - 12:00 Jie Ying Wu, Assessing surgeon proficiency through actions and attention

12:00 - 12:20 Mahdi Tavakoli, Uncertainty-aware safe adaptive motion planning for exoskeletons using machine learning

12:20 - 13:20 Panel Discussion (Ken Goldenberg, Paolo Fiorini, Iulian Iordachita, Emmanuel Vander Poorten, Jie Ying Wu, Farokh Atashzar)

13:20 - 13:50 Lunch

14:00 - 14:20 Shing Shin Cheng, Applying learning approaches to tracking and control of surgical robots

14:20 - 14:40 Farokh Atashzar, Deep Learning for Human-machine Interface through Peripheral Neural Decoding

14:40 - 15:00 Elena De Momi, Transfer learning from the human expert to the robotic assistant in the surgical domain

15:00 - 15:30 Poster session 1 + Poster pitch session 2 (Surgical robotics)

15:30 - 15:45 Industry Spotlight

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break & Interactive poster session

16:15 - 16:35 Pietro Valdastri, Exploring robotic autonomy in flexible endoscopy

16:35 - 16:50 Award Ceremony (Best Poster Award)

16:50 - 17:00 Closing remarks