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Monday, April 1, 2019

8:00am – 8:30am – Registration

Location: Marcus Nanotechnology Building, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

SSMR Speakers – Session 1

8:30am-9:15am – Jaydev P. Desai, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Flexible, 3D-printed Robotic Systems for Surgical Interventions

9:15am-10:00am – Aaron Young, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Control and human performance evaluation of lower limb wearable robotic systems

10:00am-10:45am – Jun Ueda, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Neuromodulations via Robotic Mechanical Stimulation and Paired Brain Stimulation

10:45pm – 11:15pm – Break, Refreshments, and Poster Session

SSMR Speakers – Session 2

11:15am-12:00pm – Dominic Papandria, Emory University, USA Surgical Robotics – Opportunities and Challenges in General Surgery

12:00pm - 1:00pm – Lunch

SSMR Speakers – Session 3

1:00pm-1:45pm –Muralidhar Padala, Emory University, USA Experimental platforms for development and validation of cardiovascular robotic systems

1:45pm-2:30pm – Zion Tse, University of Georgia, USA MRI-guided Therapy for Prostate, Cardiovascular and Spinal Treatment

2:30pm-3:15pm – Simon DiMaio, Intuitive Surgical, Inc., USA Medical Robots – From Bench to Bedside

3:15pm-3:45pm – Break, Refreshments, and Poster Session

SSMR Speakers – Session 4

3:45pm-4:30pm – Cameron Riviere, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Active and passive compensation of physiological motion for accuracy enhancement in surgery

4:30pm-5:15pm – Ann Majewicz Fey, UT Dallas, USA From Tool to Assistant: Developing Adaptive Surgical Robots for the Operating Room

5:15pm-6:00pm – Nabil Simaan, Vanderbilt University, USA Towards Continuum Robots with Surgical Situational Awareness: Modeling and Control Challenges with Applications

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

8:000am – 8:30am – Registration

Location: Marcus Nanotechnology Building, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

SSMR Speakers – Session 5

8:30am-9:15am – Tamas Ungi, Queen’s University, Canada Perk Tutor: An Open-Source Platform for Ultrasound Guided Intervention Training

9:15am-10:00am – Mahdi Tavakoli, University of Alberta, Canada Robotics Learning and Imitation of Physical Therapy

10:00am-10:45am – Nabil Zemiti, Université de Montpellier, France Some recent translational research activities on augmented reality and robot assisted surgery gesture guidance

10:45pm – 11:15pm – Break, Refreshments, and Poster Session

SSMR Speakers – Session 6

11:15am-12:00pm – Antoine Ferreira, INSA Centre Val de Loire, France

Recent Progress in Magnetically Actuated Microrobotics for Endovascular Therapies

12:00pm - 1:00pm – Lunch

SSMR Speakers – Session 7

1:00pm-1:45pm – Pretesh Patel, Emory University, USA Anti-Cancer Brachytherapy – Challenges and Opportunities

1:45pm-2:30pm – Paolo Fiorini, University of Verona, Italy Automation and Autonomy in Robotic Surgery

2:30pm-3:15pm – Russell H. Taylor, Johns Hopkins University, USA A Thirty Year Perspective on Medical Robotics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

3:15pm-3:45pm – Break, Refreshments, and Poster Session

SSMR Speakers – Session 8

3:45pm-4:30pm – Zachary Bercu, Emory University, USA Minimally Invasive Image-Guided Procedures (MIIP’s): A Primer for Medical Robotics Specialists

4:30pm-5:15pm – Arianna Menciassi, Scuola Superiore Sant`Anna, Italy Robotics for wireless surgery and targeted therapy

5:15pm-6:00pm – Elena De Momi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Smart assistance for surgical training and surgical practice

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

8:00am – 8:30am – Registration

Workshops for 2019 SSMR and 2019 ISMR

Title: Convergence of IP, Tech Transfer, and Translation, for Medical Robotics Research
Organizers:
Yash Chitalia, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Matt Harrow, Stryker, USA
Hussein Akhavannik, Baker Law, Washington D.C., USA
Nobuhiko Hata, Bringham and Women's Hospital, USA

Half-day (8:30am – 12:00pm); Break and Refreshments: 10:00am – 10:30am

Location: Marcus 1118

Title: Improving the Utility and Adoption of Human Augmentation Devices
Organizer: Frank L. Hammond III, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Half-day (8:30am – 12:00pm); Break and Refreshments: 10:00am – 10:30am

Location: Marcus 1117

Title: Robot-assisted eye surgery: steps toward operating room
Organizers:
Iulian Iordachita, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Emmanuel Vander Poorten, KU Leuven, Belgium
Ali Nasseri, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Half-day (8:30am – 12:00pm); Break and Refreshments: 10:00am – 10:30am

Location: Whitaker 3115

Title: Open Platforms for Medical Robotics Research
Organizers:
Peter Kazanzides, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Blake Hannaford, University of Washington, USA
Gregory S. Fischer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Full-day (8:30am – 5:00pm); Break and Refreshments: 10:00am – 10:30am / 3:00pm – 3:30pm

Location: 1128 Suddath Room, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)

12:00pm – 1:30pm – Lunch

Title: Building Software System for Image-Guided Robot-Assisted Interventions
Organizers:
Junichi Tokuda, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Tamas Ungi, Queen’s University, Canada
Axel Krieger, University of Maryland, USA
Simon Leonard, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Half-day (1:30pm – 5:00pm); Break and Refreshments: 3:00am – 3:30pm

Location: Marcus 1118

Title: Sensorimotor Augmentation in NeuroRehabilitation Robotic and Prosthetic Technologies
Organizers:
S. Farokh Atashzar, Imperial College London, UK
Mahdi Tavakoli, University of Alberta, Canada
Dario Farina, Imperial College, London, UK
Rajni V. Patel, Western University, Canada

Half-day (1:30pm – 5:00pm); Break and Refreshments: 3:00am – 3:30pm

Location: Marcus 1117

5:30pm - 7:00pm – 2019 SSMR and 2019 ISMR Reception

7:30pm - 10:00pm – 2019 SSMR and 2019 ISMR Dinner (By Invitation only)

Thursday, April 4, 2019

8:00am – 8:30am – Registration

Welcome and Opening Remarks (8:30am – 9:00am)

8:30am - 8:45am - Jaydev P. Desai, Director, Georgia Center for Medical Robotics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

8:45am - 9:00am – Chaouki Abdallah, Executive VP Research, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

09:00am – 9:45am – KEYNOTE

Rajni Patel, Ph.D., Western University, Canada – Teleoperation, Haptics and Control Issues in Medical Robotic Applications

9:45am - 10:00am - Rapid Fire Poster Presentations (2 mins each)

Session Chair: Jaydev P. Desai, Georgia Center for Medical Robotics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Marzieh Ershad, Robert Rege, Ann Majewicz Fey. Surgical Robotic Training using Real-Time Force Feedback Based on Stylistic Behavior

Yi Zheng, Ann Majewicz Fey. Effect of Stressors on Surgical Training Performance

Ziheng Wang, Ann Majewicz Fey. Operative Difficulty Assessment in Robot-assisted Teleoperation with Domain Adaptation

Daniel Naftalovich, Annie Yang, Yuman Fong, Joel Burdick, Yanghee Woo. Comparison of semantic and lower-level segmentations of robotic-assisted gastrectomies

Keshav Bimbraw, Elizabeth Fox, Frank L. Hammond III, Gil Weinberg. Sonomyography based real-time hand grasp configuration identification via supervised learning to control a soft robotic gripper

Zhaoshuo Li, Mahya Shahbazi, Niravkumar Patel, Eimear O’ Sullivan, Preetham Chalasani, Haojie Zhang, Khushi Vyas, Anton Deuget, Peter L. Gehlbach, Iulian Iordachita, Guang-Zhong Yang, Russell H. Taylor. An Image-Based Control Framework for Teleoperated Semi-Autonomous Retina Endomicroscopy Scanning

Siobhan Rigby, Daniel Buckland. Challenges of Autonomous IV insertion

10:00am – 10:30am – Break, Refreshments, and Poster Session

10:30am - 12:30pm - Oral Presentations – Session 1 (15mins/paper: 13 mins presentation + 2 mins Q&A)

Session Chair: Aaron Young, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Renz Ocampo and Mahdi Tavakoli. Visual-Haptic Colocation in Robotic Rehabilitation Exercises Using a 2D Augmented-Reality Display

Nafiseh Ebrahimi, Gautham Muthukumaran and Amir Jafari. Reduction in The Metabolic Cost of Human Walking Gaits Using Quasi-Passive Upper Body Exoskeleton

Shrey Pareek, Hemanth Manjunath, Ehsan Esfahani and Thenkurussi Kesavadas. MyoTrack: Tracking Subject Participation in Robotic Rehabilitation using sEMG and IMU

Veena Jayasree-Krishnan, Dhruv Gamdha, Brian Goldberg, Shramana Ghosh, Preeti Raghavan and Vikram Kapila. A Novel Task-Specific Upper-Extremity Rehabilitation System with Interactive Game-Based Interface for Stroke Patients

Vijeth Rai, Abhishek Sharma and Eric Rombokas. Mode-free Control of Prosthetic Lower Limbs

Rui Li, Christopher Modlesky and Zion Tse. Smartphone-enabled Trackers for Lower-body Monitoring

Bahareh Abbasi, Mehdi Sharifzadeh, Ehsan Noohi, Sina Parastegari and Milos Zefran. Grasp Taxonomy for Robot Assistants Inferred from Finger Pressure and Flexion

Waiman Meinhold and Jun Ueda. Tendon Tapping Location Detection Through Impact Modeling

12:30pm – 1:30pm – Lunch

1:30pm – 3:00pm - Oral Presentations – Session 2 (15mins/paper: 13 mins presentation + 2 mins Q&A)

Session Chair: Mahdi Tavakoli, University of Alberta, Canada

Yun-Hsuan Su, Kevin Huang and Blake Hannaford. Multicamera 3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Surgical Cavities: Camera Grouping and Pair Sequencing

Di Wu, Gang Li, Niravkumar Patel, Jiawen Yan, Reza Monfaredi, Kevin Cleary and Iulian Iordachita. Remotely Actuated Needle Driving Device for MRI-guided Percutaneous Interventions

Shahriar Sefati, Rachel Hegeman, Farshid Alambeigi, Iulian Iordachita and Mehran Armand. FBG-Based Position Estimation of Highly Deformable Continuum Manipulators: Model-Dependent vs. Data-Driven Approaches

Ali Ebrahimi, Changyan He, Niravkumar Patel, Marin Kobilarov, Peter Gehlbach and Iulian Iordachita. Sclera Force Control in Robot-assisted Eye Surgery: Adaptive Force Control vs. Auditory Feedback

Xuefeng Wang, Phillip Tran, Sarah Callahan, Steven Wolf and Jaydev Desai. Towards the development of a voice-controlled exoskeleton system for restoring hand function

Brooks McKinney, Will McKinney, Shivanand Pattanshetti and Seok Chang Ryu. Feasibility Study of In Vivo Robotic Plasma Medicine Devices

3:00pm – 3:15pm - Rapid Fire Poster Presentations (2 mins each)

Session Chair: Jaydev P. Desai, Georgia Center for Medical Robotics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Austin J. Taylor, Sheng Xu, Bradford J. Wood, Zion T. H. Tse. Rapid Prototyping of Patient Specific CT Markers

Zhuo Zhao, Rui Li, Sheng Xu, Bradford J. Wood, Zion Tsz Ho Tse. Angular Tracking Device for Assisting Image-guided Needle Placement

Rui Li, Sheng Xu, Bradford Wood, Zion Tsz Ho Tse. 3D-printed Template for Assisting MRI-guided Needle Biopsy

Rui Li, Kate Schutz, Zion Tsz Ho Tse. Studying Lunge Movement for Fencing Injury Rehabilitation

Lingbo Cheng, Mahdi Tavakoli. Neural network-based physiological organ motion prediction and robot impedance control for teleoperated beating-heart surgery

Xiaolong Liu, Jindong Tan. A Generic In Vivo In Situ Camera Cleaning Module for Laparoscopic Surgery

Nahian Rahman, Nancy Deaton, Jun Sheng, Jaydev P. Desai. A Novel Bending Sensor for Measuring the Deflections of a Continuum Robot

3:15pm – 3:45pm – Break, Refreshments, and Poster Session

3:45pm – 4:15pm – Semi-Plenary Talk

Nabil Zemiti, Ph.D., University of Montpellier, France – Some recent translational research activities on augmented reality and

robot assisted surgical gesture guidance

4:15pm – 4:45pm – Semi-Plenary Talk

Zachary Bercu, MD, Emory University Hospital Midtown, USA – Medical Robotics in Endovascular Procedures - Challenges and Opportunities

4:45pm – 5:30pm - Oral Presentations – Session 3 (15mins/paper: 13 mins presentation + 2 mins Q&A)

Session Chair: Jun Ueda, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Mohammad Yasar, David Evans and Homa Alemzadeh. Context-aware Monitoring in Robotic Surgery

Ada Zhang, Liheng Guo and Anthony Jarc. Prediction of task-based, surgeon efficiency metrics during robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery

Christopher Schlenk, Andrea Schwier, Michael Heiss, Thomas Bahls and Alin Albu-Schäffer. Design of a robotic instrument for minimally invasive waterjet surgery

5:30pm – 7:30pm – 2019 ISMR Networking Social

7:30pm – 9:30pm – 2019 ISMR Banquet

Friday, April 5, 2019

8:00am – 8:30am – Registration

8:30am – 9:00am – Semi-Plenary Talk

Cameron Riviere, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, USA – Handheld robotics for microsurgery in the eye and brain

9:00am - 10:30am - Oral Presentations – Session 4 (15mins/paper: 13 mins presentation + 2 mins Q&A)

Session Chair: Blake Hannaford, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Dogancan Temel, Melvin Mathew, Ghassan Alregib and Yousuf Khalifa. Automated Pupillary Light Reflex Test on a Portable Platform

Niveditha Kalavakonda and Blake Hannaford. Augmented Reality Application for Aiding Tumor Resection in Skull-Base Surgery

Shivanand Pattanshetti and Seok Chang Ryu. On the Kinematic Model of Continuum Robots with Spatially Varying Nonlinear Stiffness

Ruipeng Chen, David Folio and Antoine Ferreira. Study of robotized electromagnetic actuation system for magnetic microrobots devoted to minimally invasive ophthalmic surgery

Brijen Thananjeyan, Ajay Tanwani, Jessica Ji, Danyal Fer, Vatsal Patel, Sanjay Krishnan and Ken Goldberg. Optimizing Robot-Assisted Surgery Suture Plans to Avoid Joint Limits and Singularities

Francesco Piqué, Mohamed Nassim Boushaki, Margherita Brancadoro, Elena De Momi and Arianna Menciassi. Dynamic Modeling of the Da Vinci Research Kit Arm for the Estimation of Interaction Wrench

10:30am – 11:00am – Break, Refreshments, and Poster Session

11:00am – 11:45am – KEYNOTE

Lee M. Akst, MD, Johns Hopkins University, USA – Robotic Microlaryngeal Surgery – Where We Are and Where We’re Going

11:45am - 12:30pm - Oral Presentations – Session 5 (15mins/paper: 13 mins presentation + 2 mins Q&A)

Session Chair: Riccardo Muradore, University of Verona, Italy

Giovanni Menegozzo, Diego Dall'Alba, Chiara Zandonà and Paolo Fiorini. Surgical Gesture Recognition with Time Delay Neural Network based on kinematic data

Francesco Setti, Elettra Oleari, Alice Leporini, Diana Trojanello, Alberto Sanna, Umberto Capitanio, Francesco Montorsi, Andrea Salonia and Riccardo Muradore. A Multirobots Teleoperated Platform for Artificial Intelligence Training Data Collection in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Jay Carriere, Jason Fong, Tyler Meyer, Ron Sloboda, Siraj Husain, Nawaid Usmani and Mahdi Tavakoli. An Admittance-Controlled Robotic Assistant for Semi-Autonomous Breast Ultrasound Scanning

12:30pm – 1:30pm – Lunch

1:30pm – 2:15pm – KEYNOTE

Stanley Duke Herrell, MD, Vanderbilt University, USA – Engineering the future of Urology and MIS: The role of the Surgical Innovator

2:15pm - 3:15pm - Oral Presentations – Session 6 (15mins/paper: 13 mins presentation + 2 mins Q&A)

Session Chair: Ravikiran B. Singapogu, Clemson University, USA

Zhuo Zhao and Zion Tsz Ho Tse. A Smartphone and Permanent Magnet-based Needle Guidance System

Mahdieh Babaiasl, Fan Yang, Yao Chen, Jow-Lian Ding and John Swensen. Predicting Depth of Cut of Water-jet in Soft Tissue Simulants based on Finite Element Analysis with the Application to Fracture-directed Water-jet Steerable Needles

Kihan Park, Phillip Tran, Nancy Deaton and Jaydev Desai. Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube (MWCNT)/PDMS-based Flexible Sensor for Medical Applications

Irfan Kil, Ravikiran B. Singapogu and Richard E. Groff. Needle Entry Angle & Force: Vision-enabled Force-based Metrics to Assess Surgical Suturing Skill

3:15pm – 3:45pm – Break, Refreshments, and Poster Session

3:45pm – 5:15pm - Oral Presentations – Session 7 (15mins/paper: 13 mins presentation + 2 mins Q&A)

Session Chair: Sang-Eun Song, University of Central Florida, USA

Arpita Routray, Robert MacLachlan, Joseph Martel and Cameron Riviere. Real-Time Incremental Estimation of Retinal Surface Using Laser Aiming Beam

Eric Wilde, Sumit Dan, Nathan A. Wood, Michael J. Passineau, M. Scott Halbreiner, Marco A. Zenati and Cameron Riviere. Parallel Position/Force Control of Epicardial Wire Robot Based on Ellipsoid Geodesy

Jianxin Gao, Irfan Kil, Richard E. Groff and Ravikiran B. Singapogu. Automatic Detection of Needle Puncture in a Simulated Cannulation Task

Sakura Sikander, Pradipta Biswas, Pankaj Kulkarni, Christopher Harrington, Neil Chang and Sang-Eun Song. Concept Development of Fixed Geometry Tactile Display using Granular Jamming

Yingqiao Yang, Kai-Leung Yung and Robert Tin Wai Hung. Surface Model Extraction from Indentation Curves of Hyperelastic Simulation for Abnormality Detection

Adolfo Perrusquia and Wen Yu. Task space human-robot interaction using angular velocity Jacobian

5:15pm – 5:30pm – Closing Remarks