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.

 

 
 
 
 

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 at  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

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

Team presentations and award at ICRA2023

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

W Pang, M Islam, S Mitheran, L Seenivasan, M Xu, H Ren
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7 (4), 12623-12630
Congratulations on the excellent work done and poster award in ICRA workshop New Evolutions in Surgical Robotics: Embracing Multimodal Imaging Guidance, Intelligence, and Bio-inspired Mechanisms held at ICRA 2023.
  • 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

3 papers accepted by MICCAI2022

Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted by MICCAI2022:

  • An et al Rethinking Surgical Instrument Segmentation: A Background Image Can Be All You Need
  • Lalith et al Surgical-VQA: Visual Question Answering in Surgical Scenes using Transformer
  • Mengya et al Rethinking Surgical Captioning: End-to-End Window-Based MLP Transformer Using Patches

 

Team presentations at ICRA2022

Congratulations to the following members for the 3 papers accepted by ICRA2022 and presentations at  ICRA2022:

Godwin: Chip-Less Real-Time Wireless Sensing of Endotracheal Intubation Tubes by Printing and Mounting Conformable Antenna Tag 

Lalith: Global-Reasoned Multi-Task Learning Model for Surgical Scene Understanding

Ling: SIRNet: Fine-Grained Surgical Interaction Recognition

Godwin and Lalith are presenting at ICRA on site this year:
https://www.icra2022.org/

Team presentations at pre-ICRA2021

Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted by ICRA2021 and presentations at pre-ICRA2021:

Menya Learning Domain Adaptation with Model Calibration for Surgical Report Generation in Robotic Surgery https://youtu.be/Eu-ryJ9OyTM
Godwin Chip-Less Wireless Sensing of Origami Structural Morphing under Various Mechanical Stimuli Using Home-Based Ink-Jet Printable Materials https://youtu.be/HXgW2S21OGI
Huxin Remote-Center-Of-Motion Recommendation Toward Brain Needle Intervention Using Deep Reinforcement Learning https://youtu.be/Py5Vw_hQryY
Bok Seng Origami-Inspired Snap-Through Bistability in Parallel and Curved Mechanisms through the Inflection of Degree Four Vertexes https://youtu.be/mCBPTVw5_kw
Changsheng A Miniature Manipulator with Variable Stiffness towards Minimally Invasive Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery https://youtu.be/b_zW9MHgG5g
Ruphan Multiphysics Simulation of Magnetically Actuated Robotic Origami Worms  https://youtu.be/UCkLuhoN0ME

7 papers accepted by ICRA2021 including 2 concurrently by RA-L

Congratulations to the following members for the papers accepted by ICRA2021 including 2 concurrently by RA-L:

Xiao et al Magnetically-Connected Modular Reconfigurable Mini-Robotic System with Bilateral Isokinematic Mapping and Fast On-Site Assembly towards Minimally Invasive Procedures https://youtu.be/V1N2OiN43vw (Talk)  https://youtu.be/PNneXuRXgZI (Demo)
Menya Learning Domain Adaptation with Model Calibration for Surgical Report Generation in Robotic Surgery https://youtu.be/Eu-ryJ9OyTM
Godwin Chip-Less Wireless Sensing of Origami Structural Morphing under Various Mechanical Stimuli Using Home-Based Ink-Jet Printable Materials https://youtu.be/HXgW2S21OGI
Huxin Remote-Center-Of-Motion Recommendation Toward Brain Needle Intervention Using Deep Reinforcement Learning https://youtu.be/Py5Vw_hQryY
Bok Seng Origami-Inspired Snap-Through Bistability in Parallel and Curved Mechanisms through the Inflection of Degree Four Vertexes https://youtu.be/mCBPTVw5_kw
Changsheng A Miniature Manipulator with Variable Stiffness towards Minimally Invasive Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery https://youtu.be/b_zW9MHgG5g
Ruphan Multiphysics Simulation of Magnetically Actuated Robotic Origami Worms  https://youtu.be/UCkLuhoN0ME