Our team papers presented at MICCAI 2019

Our teamwork on surgical instrument tracking (led by Mobarakol) was selected for oral presentation at MICCAI 2019, Shenzhen.  Another paper on Robot-Assisted Surgery Using Multi-Domain CNN led by Qiu Liang was also selected for a workshop presentation and HTL journal publication.

Key facts about MICCAI 2019:

  • 539 accepted papers
  • a low acceptance rate of 31%
  • only 50+ oral presentations
  • 2000+ attendees
  • 7 single-track oral sessions

Related publications:

Islam, Mobarakol, Yueyuan Li, and Hongliang Ren. “Learning Where to Look While Tracking Instruments in Robot-assisted Surgery.” International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Springer, Cham, 2019.

Qiu, Liang, Changsheng Li, Hongliang Ren. “Real-time Surgical Instrument Tracking in Robot-Assisted Surgery Using Multi-Domain CNN.” Healthcare Technology Letters (2019).

 

 

 

Lab paper presented at ROBOSOFT2019

Our research publication on a flexible manipulator was presented during IEEE ROBOSOFT 2019 (IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), robosoft 2019, COEX, Seoul, Korea, April 14~18, 2019) and Dr. Ren served as the session chair for the soft manipulation session.

Li, C.; Gu, X.; Xiao, X.; Zhu, G.; Prituja, A. & Ren, H.
Transcend Anthropomorphic Robotic Grasping with Modular Antagonistic Mechanisms and Adhesive Soft Modulations
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019 , 4 , 2463-2470