๐Ÿ“ข CFP due July 20: ๐ˆ๐‚๐๐ˆ๐‘ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ | ๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”โ€“๐Ÿ๐Ÿ–, ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ | ๐™๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐ž, ๐†๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ, ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ง๐š

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Join us in the breathtaking landscapes of ๐™๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐ž, China for the ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‘๐จ๐›๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ (๐ˆ๐‚๐๐ˆ๐‘), an affiliated event of the ๐๐Ÿ Elsevier journal ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‘๐จ๐›๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ (IF 5.4).

We welcome original contributions covering:
โ€ข Biomimetic design, materials & actuation
โ€ข Bio-inspired sensing, perception & navigation
โ€ข Learning-based control & embodied AI
โ€ข Soft & adaptive robotics
โ€ข Novel real-world applications integrating theory and practice

All accepted papers will be published by Elsevier and indexed in EI & Scopus. Top-ranked submissions will earn best-paper awards and invitations to submit expanded versions to Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics and other leading journals.

๐Š๐ž๐ฒ ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ 

โ€ข Full-Paper (or Short Abstract) submissions due โ†’ July 20, 2025 

โ€ข Acceptance notifications โ†’ August 1, 2025 

โ€ข Registration & final manuscript โ†’ August 10, 2025

Learn more & submit at โ–ถ๏ธ http://www.icbir.org

4 papers accepted at MICCAI2024

Congratulations to the following members (Long, Beilei, Yiming) for the papers accepted and to be presented by MICCAI2024 (accepted 858 out of 2771 papers this year, reaching an acceptance rate of 31%):

  1. Endo-4DGS: Endoscopic Monocular Scene Reconstruction with 4D Gaussian Splatting
  2. EndoUIC: Promptable Diffusion Transformer for Unified Illumination Correction in Capsule Endoscopy
  3. LighTDiff: Surgical Endoscopic Image Low-Light Enhancement with T-Diffusion
  4. EndoDAC: Efficient Adapting Foundation Model for Self-Supervised Depth Estimation from Any Endoscopic Camera

Team presentation and award at IPCAI2024

Congratulations to Beilei and Mobarakl for the paper “Surgical-DINO: Adapter Learning of Foundation Models for Depth Estimation in Endoscopic Surgery, (Beilei Cui, Mobarakol Islam, Long Bai, Hongliang Ren) Shortlisted for competing for the IPCAI2024 Best Paper Award and long presentation at  IPCAI2024 Barcelona, Spain.

The International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI) is one of the most important venues for disseminating innovative peer-reviewed research in computer-assisted surgery and minimally invasive interventions. Now in its 15th year, IPCAI is an interdisciplinary conference that attracts clinicians, engineers and computer science researchers from various backgrounds, including machine learning, robotics, computer vision, medical imaging, data science, and sensing technologies. IPCAI fosters connections and showcases high-quality research in a unique and focused two-day event. The conference is formatted specifically to actively engage the attendees.

The IPCAI was held between June 18-19 2024 in conjunction with the Computer-Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) Conference in Barcelona, Spain.

 

 
 
 
 

Dr Ren Won Young Researcher Award, CUHK

Dr. Ren won the Young Researcher Award 2024, CUHK, Congratulations!

 

The Young Researcher Award is nominated annually by each Faculty to recognize young
academic staff with exemplary research achievements. The Award consists of a plaque and
an amount of HK$ I 00,000 in the form of a research grant.

 

Team presentations and award at ICRA2024

Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted by ICRA2024 Japan and presentations at  ICRA2024:

  1. Chained Flexible Capsule Endoscope: Unraveling the Conundrum of Size Limitations and Functional Integration for Gastrointestinal Transitivity
  2. Magnetic-Guided Flexible Origami Robot Toward Long-Term Phototherapy of H. Pylori in the Stomach
  3. Inconstant Curvature Kinematics of Parallel Continuum Robot without Static Model
  4. OSSAR: Towards Open-Set Surgical Activity Recognition in Robot-Assisted Surgery
 
Congratulations on the excellent work done and poster award in ICRA workshop in Surgical Robotics:
 
  •  AI-Enhanced Robotic Microendoscope for Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Team presentations at IJCAI 2023

Congratulations to the following members for the presentations atย  IJCAI2023 Macau, IJCAI2023 Symposium on Multimodal Reasoning – Techniques, Applications, and Challenges:

Multimodal Reasoning and Language Prompting for Interactive Learning Assistant for Robotic Surgery. Gokul Kannan, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Hongliang Ren
IJCAI-2023 Symposium Session on Medical Large Models
Talk by Dr. Ren: Surgical motion understanding and generation towards intelligent minimally invasive robotic procedures

6 papers presented at MICCAI2023

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Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted and presented by MICCAI2023:

Revisiting distillation for continual learning on visual question localized-answering in robotic surgery

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L Bai, M Islam, H Ren*

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2023

Rectifying noisy labels with sequential prior: multi-scale temporal feature affinity learning for robust video segmentation

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B Cui, M Zhang, M Xu, A Wang, W Yuan*, H Ren*

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2023

Co-attention gated vision-language embedding for visual question localized-answering in robotic surgery

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L Bai, M Islam, H Ren*

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2023

LLCaps: learning to illuminate low-light capsule endoscopy with curved wavelet attention and reverse diffusion

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L Bai, T Chen, Y Wu, A Wang, M Islam, H Ren*

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2023

S2ME: Spatial-Spectral Mutual Teaching and Ensemble Learning for Scribble-supervised Polyp Segmentation

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A Wang, M Xu, Y Zhang, M Islam, H Ren*

arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.00451, MICCAI2023

SurgicalGPT: End-to-End Language-Vision GPT for visual question answering in surgery

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L Seenivasan, M Islam, G Kannan, H Ren*

arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.09974, MICCAI2023

Also congrats on Lalith’s award for best MICCAI reviewer & Andy’s workshop presentation