Program

Wednesday 11th September

09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome | Introduction

09:15 – 10:15 | Session 1 | Medical Image Processing

    FetalBrainAwareNet: Bridging GANs with Anatomical Insight for Fetal Ultrasound Brain Plane Synthesis (presenter: Angelo Lasala)

    Scribble-Based Interactive Segmentation of Medical Hyperspectral Images (presenter: Charlie Budd)

    FedStenoNet: Leveraging Federated Learning for X-ray Coronary Angiography (presenter: Giovanna Migliorelli)

10:15 – 10:45 | Coffee break

10:45 – 11:30 | Keynote 1| Mr. Johannes Callø (Universal Robots A/S)

The Future of MedTech & Current applications

11:30 – 12:30 | Session 2 | Control

    Respiratory Motion Compensation Based on Long Short-Term Memory Network for Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Placement (presenter: Ayoob Davoodi)

    Rate Dependent Prandtl-Ishlinskii Model based Non-Linear Contact Force Minimization for Mitraclip Delivery System (presenter: Syed Zain Mehdi)

    Evaluating Robotic Approach Techniques for the Insertion of a Straight Instrument into a Vitreoretinal Surgery Trocar (presenter: Ross Henry)

12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 | Session 3 | User Interfaces and VR/AR

    HAPTIGLIDER: a hybrid haptic interface with variable-friction feedback for transluminal endoscopy simulation (presenter: Vladimir Poliakov)

    Preliminary evaluation of a multi modal simulator for freehand ventriculostomy (presenter: Benjamin Delbos)

    Laparoscopic Augmented Reality with learning based partial point cloud registration with Gaussian Mixture Model (presenter: Alberto Neri)

15:00 – 16:00 | Poster pitch section

16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee break

16:30 – 17:30 | Session 4 | Sensors

    Fiber-Optic Shape Sensing Twist Compensation Based on Preoperative Geometry (presenter: Wim-Alexander Beckers)

    Electrical Bio-Impedance Sensing-Based Control for Recanalization in CTO-PCI (presenter: Yao Zhang)

    Resolution-based Dynamic Time Warping for Hand Motion Recognition in Robot-assisted Endovascular Surgery (presenter: Olatunji Mumini Omisore)

17:30 – 17:40 | Ending remark

17:40 – 19:30 | Welcome reception

 

 

Thursday 12th September

09:00 – 10:00 | Session 5 | AI based diagnosis and detection

    Enhancing Colonoscopy Interpretation with AI-Based Captioning (presenter: Luca Carlini)

    AI-driven Videomics System for Computer-Assisted Laryngology (presenter: Leonardo De Mattos)

    Real-Time Monitoring and Analysis of Surgeon's Stress in Robotic/Laparoscopic Surgery (presenter: Abdulaziz Almuhini)

10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break

10:30 – 11:15 | Keynote 2 | Prof. Gastone Ciuti (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

Robotic endoscopy: technological breakthroughs and challenges in the gastrointestinal tract

11:15 – 12:15 | Session 6 | Novel hardware 1

    Design and implementation of a miniaturized cooling system for Trans-Esophageal Echocardiographic probes in minimally invasive cardiac surgery (presenter: Francesca Parrotta)

    A novel transoral laser microsurgery device with rotary voice-coil actuators (presenter: Leonardo De Mattos)

    Modelling and Characterization of a Multi-Arm Robot for Single-Port Spina Bifia Repair Surgery (presenter: Xiaohang Zhang)

12:15 – 13:45 | Lunch

13:45 – 14:45 | Session 7| Medical signal processing

    A Novel Optical Sensing Technology for Deep Vessel Puncture Detection (presenter: Marianne V. Petersen)

    Exploring the Feasibility of Intra-operative Surgical Navigation for Ureteral Identification: an in-vivo study on animal model (presenter: Alberto Neri)

    Real-Time Spatial Monitoring Using Transparently Integrated Pressure Sensors for Optimized Acoustic Coupling during Robot-Assisted HIFU Surgery (presenter: Silvia Buratti)

14:45 – 15:15 | Company session

    Ropca

    Lifeline Robotics

    Kuntai Robotics

    Life Science Robotics

    ECHOVICE

15:15 – 15:45 | Coffee break

15:45 – 16:30 | Keynote 3 | Prof. Emiliano Votta (Politecnico di Milano)

Robotizing transcatheter cardiac interventions: complex technologies can make clinical procedures simpler and safer

16:30 – 17:30 | Session 8 | Autonomy in Surgical Robotics

    Robotic Assisted Ultrasound Examination of Deep Venous Thrombosis based on Kernelized Movement Primitives (presenter: Lorenzo Busellato)

    A probabilistic stereo pipeline for surgical needle pose estimation (presenter: Iñigo Iturrate)

    Image-based Path Planning and Navigation for Miniature Serpentine Robotic Bronchoscopy (presenter: Cheng-Peng Kuan)

17:30 – 17:45 | Awards section

19:00 – 21:00 | Gala dinner

Restaurant H.C. Meyers, Odeons Kvarter 11, 5000 Odense

 

 

Friday 13th September

09:00 – 10:00 | Session 9 | Continuum robotics

    Tendon-Driven vs Rod-Driven Continuum Robots: A Bench Test Evaluation (presenter: Camille Benoist)

    Design of a Knob Actuator for Transesophageal Echocardiographic Probe (presenter: Vanessa Cannizzaro)

    Using a soft tensegrity to build an endoscope tip: numerical assessment of orientation and stiffness capabilities (presenter: Jérémy Sand)

10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break

10:30 – 11:15 | Keynote 4 | Mr. Stefano Pomati (Asensus Surgical Italia)

Asensus Surgical's vision and the Senhance robot – A journey from concept to product

11:15 – 12:15 | Session 10 | Novel hardware 2

    A Modular and Open Platform with Remote Center of Motion Control for Robotic Surgery Research and Training (presenter: Adam Wolniakowski)

    A portable robot for assisting needle insertion to femoral artery (presenter: Zhuoqi Cheng)

    Exploring potential of ultrasonic piezoelectric actuators for robotic-assisted microsurgery (presenter: Martina Polidoro)

13:15 – 14:30 | SDU Robotics lab tour

14:30 – 17:00 | visit Universal Robotics

Poster

  • Optimal Patient Positioning Based on a Workspace Analysis for US-guided Robotic Pedicle Screw Placement
  • Fast OCT-Based Reconstruction and Registration for Robot-Assisted Intra-cochlear Navigation
  • Fast Needle Tip Tracking for Retinal Microsurgery using OCT Raster Line Scan
  • Hysteresis Characterization of a Continuum Surgical Robot Based on Long Short-Term Memory for Enhanced Motion Prediction
  • Evaluation of the Impact of Delay in Remote Robotic Retinal Surgery
  • Analyzing Surgical Videos with an Ensemble of Multi-task Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks
  • SIST: Segmentation and Inpainting of Surgical Tools in Minimally invasive Radical Prostatectomy
  • A Dynamic Graph Neural Network Architecture for Multi-tasking on Fetoscopic Medical Images
  • Learning surgical suturing using diffusion policy
  • A new approach to utilize exoskeletons in home-based rehabilitation
  • Analytical solution for the inverse kinematics problem in remote center of motion control in robotic surgery