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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