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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

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.

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

•  AI-Enhanced Robotic Microendoscope for Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging

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

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

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

Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted by ICRA2023 and presentations at  ICRA2023:

Surgical-VQLA: transformer with gated vision-language embedding for visual question localized-answering in robotic surgery

L Bai, M Islam, L Seenivasan, H Ren*

arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11692, ICRA 2023

Rethinking Feature Extraction: Gradient-Based Localized Feature Extraction for End-To-End Surgical Downstream Tasks

• Domain Adaptive Sim-to-Real Segmentation of Oropharyngeal Organs Towards Robot-assisted Intubation, Guankun Wang, Tian-Ao Ren, Jiewen Lai, Long Bai, and Hongliang Ren
• Relational Reasoning in VQA Models for Visual Question Answering in Robotic Surgery, Lalithkumar and Hongliang Ren