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12 & 15 July 2014
Seminar and Learning Centre, Imperial College London
5th Floor, Sherfield Building, London SW7 2AZ
Workshop Schedule
Workshops- Saturday 12 July
Cognitive Surgical Robotics 09:00-17:00
Micro-robotics and Design Challenge 09:00-13:00
MR-compatible Robotics & Interventions 09:00-13:00
Paediatric Robotic Surgery – A Hands-on Training Session (held at
the Paterson Building, excluded from this programme) 08:00-18:00
Robotically Assisted Endovascular Intervention 14:00-17:30
Surgical Imaging 14:00-17:30
Workshops - Tuesday, 15 July
Augmented Reality & Surgical Vision 09:00-13:00
BCI and Human Robot Interaction 09:00-13:00
Flexible Access Surgery 09:00-13:00
Open Platforms for Robotic Surgery 14:00-17:30
Smart Surgical Devices 14:00-17:30
Wearable & Assistive Robots 09:00-17:00
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Saturday, 12th July 2014, 09:00-17:00
Programme
WORKFLOW MODELLING AND MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE
09:00 - 09:05 Welcome and Opening Remarks - Paolo Fiorini, University of Verona, Italy
09:05 - 09:25 Information Guided Surgery using Workflow Descriptions - Joerg
Raczkowsky, Karlsrhue Institute of Technology, Germany
09:25 - 09:45 Robotics and Context-aware Surgical Assistance - Hannes Kenngott,
University of Heidelberg, Germany
09:45 - 10:05 Process Modelling as a Tool to Cross the Quality Chasm in Minimally
Invasive and Robotic Surgery - Marco Zenati, Harvard Medical School
10:05 - 10:25 Analysis of Surgical Workflow for Intra-Operative Navigation in MIS -
Stamatia Giannarou, Imperial College London, UK
10:25 - 10:45 Ontology-Based Surgical Workflow Management for Instruments
Recognition and Classification - Roberta Perrone, Politecnico di Milano,
Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Italy
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
SURGICAL TASK MODELING, CONTROL AND VALIDATION
11:00 - 11:20 Translating Surgeons’ Knowledge into Technical Requirements: The I-
SUR Approach to Planning Surgical Robotic Procedures - Riccardo Dodi,
Fondazione Centro San Raffaele, Italy
11:20 - 11:40 Distributed Control Architecture for Automated Surgery: an Experimental
Validation - Riccardo Muradore, University of Verona, Italy
11:40 - 12:00 Probabilistic Engine of Reasoning and Situation Awareness Module for
an Automatic Medical Robotic System - Phuong Nguyen, The Intervention
Centre, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital HF, Norway
12:00 - 12:20 Cognition In Assisted Teleoperated Surgery - Alicia Casals, Institute for
Bioengineering of Catalonia and Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
12:20 - 12:40 Reasoning About Reliability And Performance Evaluation In Cognitive
Surgical Robots - Marta Capiluppi, University of Verona, Italy
12:40 - 13:00 From Cognitive Planning to Safe Execution In The ACTIVE Project for
Robotic Neurosurgery - Elena de Momi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
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COGNITION IN EMBEDDED AND MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS
14:00 - 14:20 Needle steering in Neurosurgery: a Biologically Inspired Approach -
Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena, Imperial College London, UK
14:20 - 14:40 Development of Cognition In Stiffness-Controllable Robot Manipulators
to Aid Surgeons During Complex Minimally Invasive Procedures - Kaspar
Althoefer, Kings’ College London, UK
14:40 - 15:00 Two Knowledge-based Components for Robot-assisted Minimally
Invasive Surgery - Andreas Bihlmaier, KIT, IAR-IPR, Germany
15:00 - 15:20 Accurate and cost effective trainer for robotic surgery - Davide Zerbato,
BBZ, Srl, Verona, Italy
15:20 - 15:40 Novel Approaches for Cooperative Man-Machine Surgical Teams in the
OR - Auguste van Poelgeest, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing,
Engineering and Automation IPA, Germany
15:40 - 16:00 Scaled Position-Force Tracking Wireless Teleoperation Architecture for
Miniaturized Surgical Robotic System - Jing GUO, Department of Robotics,
LIRMM, University of Montpellier 2 - CNRS, France
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:00 Round Table On Present and Future Of Cognition In Robotic Surgery
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Saturday, 12th July 201, 09:00-13:00
Programme
09:00 - 09:30 Coffee and Welcome
09:30 - 10:00 Invited Talk - Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
10:10 - 10:30 Untethered Nanorobots and Their Actuation for Biological Applications -
Peer Fischer, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of
Stuttgart, Germany
10:30 - 11:00 Modelling and Simulation of Biomedical Micro-Nano Robots - Antoine
Ferreira, INSA Centre Val de Loire, France
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Crowdsourcing the Design of Swarming Nanosystems for Cancer
Applications - Sabine Hauert, University of Bristol, UK
12:00 - 12:30 Micro/nanoswimmers for Microfluidics and Biological Applications -
Gilgueng Hwang, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
12:30 - 13:00 Discussion - The Microbot Challenge (The Hamlyn Centre, UK):
Guang-Zhong Yang
Hani Marcus
Avci Ebubekir
Christos Bergeles
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
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Saturday, 12th July 2014, 09:00-13:00
Programme
09:30 - 09:40 Welcome and Introduction - Kawal Rhode, King's College London, & Andreas
Melzer, Dundee School of Medicine, UK
09:40 - 10:00 Basic Concepts for MRI-Guided Interventions & MRI-Guided Focused
Ultrasound - Andreas Melzer, Dundee School of Medicine, UK
10:00 - 10:20 MR-Compatible Robotics For Flexible Devices – Catheters - Kaspar Althoefer,
King’s College London, UK
10:20 - 10:40 MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound: From Dream to Clinical Reality - Wady
Gedroyc, Imperial College London, UK
10:40 - 11:00 MR-guided EP procedures: the new killer app? - Mark O'Neill, King’s College
London, UK
11:00 - 11:20 MR-Compatible Robotics for Rigid Devices – Biopsy Needles -
Kevin Cleary, Children's National Medical Center, Washington DC, USA (via
Skype)
11:20 - 11:40 Coffee Break and Industry Forum
11:40 - 12:00 Road to market for MR-compatible devices - Patricia Seifert, EPflex,
Dettingen, Germany
12:00 - 12:20 Novel Hybrid Imaging Systems for MRI-Guided Interventions and Surgery -
Arne Hengerer, Siemens (via Skype)
12:20 - 12:40 Enablers for MR Interventions, communication and remote control - Tom
Breslin, MR instruments, USA
12:40 - 13:10 Panel discussion: future challenges for MR-compatible robotics &
interventions - Chaired by Andreas Melzer & Kawal Rhode
13:10 - 14:00 Lunch & poster viewing
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Saturday, 12th July 2014, 1400-1730
Programme
14:00 - 14:05 Introduction
14:05 - 14:35 New Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques to Guide Aortic
Intervention - Rachel Clough, King’s College London, UK
14:35 - 15:05 Towards Automation in Endovascular Interventions - Mahdi Azizian,
Intuitive Surgical, USA
15:05 - 15:30 Reducing Invasiveness of Endovascular Procedures through Smart
Catheter Technology: Current status of CASCADE development - Alain
Devreker & Caspar Gruijthuijsen, KU Leuven, Belgium
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break (with CASCADE Demo)
16:00 - 16:30 Use of the Amigo Robotic Catheter System in Atrial Fibrillation ablation -
Andre Ng, University of Leicester, UK
16:30 - 17:00 Panel Discussion - What next for Robotically Assisted Endovascular
Interventions?
Colin Bicknell/ Celia Riga – Arterial Procedures Sabine Ernst – Cardiac Procedures Mo Hamady – Interventional Radiology Hedyeh Rafii-Tari – Cooperative Robotic Control Su-Lin Lee – Image Guidance
17:00 - 17:15 Concluding remarks
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Saturday, 12th July 2014, 1400-1730
Programme
14:00 - 14:05 Welcome
14:05 - 14:15 EPSRC-NIHR HTC Partnership Award on Devices for Surgery and
Rehabilitation - Daniel Elson, Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial
College London, UK
14:15 - 14:25 The Enteric Healthcare Technology Co-operative (HTC) - Charles Knowles,
Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London
14:25 - 14:45 HELICoiD: HypErspectraL Imaging Cancer Detection - Gustavo Callicó,
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
14:45 - 15:05 Surgical Navigation System Based on Real-Time Segmentation and
Registration Methods - Bogdan Maris, University of Verona, Italy
15:05 - 15:35 3D Surface Reconstruction For Markerless Augmented Reality in
Laparoscopic Surgery - Lena Maier-Hein, German Cancer Research Centre,
Heidelberg, Germany
15:35 - 16:05 Coffee Break
16:05 - 16:25 Parallel OCT For Real Time Fast Visualization of En Face Planes During
Endoscopic Assisted Surgery - Adrian Bradu, University of Kent, UK
16:25 - 16:55 Fluorescence Image Guided Surgery - Boris Vojnovic, University of Oxford,
UK
16:55 - 17:30 Panel Discussion on Surgical Imaging
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Tuesday, 15th July 2014, 0900-1300
Programme
09:00 - 09:25 Arrival & Coffee
09:25 - 09:30 Welcome and Introduction
09:30 - 10:00 Relevance-Based Multi-Modal Data Visualisation for Computer Assisted
Interventions - Nassir Navab, Johns Hopkins University, USA & TUM
Germany
10:00 - 10:30 Towards Intraoperative Soft-tissue Registration for Laparoscopic Liver
Surgery - Stefanie Speidel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
10:30 - 11:00 Computer Assisted Surgery : The hybrid Surgery Concept - Luc Soler,
IRCAD, France
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:15 Rapid Prototyping of Ultrasound-Guided Interventions - Gabor Fichtinger,
Queen’s University, Canada
12:15 - 12:50 Video Presentations
12:50 - 13:00 Concluding Remarks, Best Video Prize
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
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Tuesday, 15 July 2014, 0900-1300
Programme
09:00 – 09:20 Arrival and coffee
09:20 - 09:30 Welcome and introductions
09:30 - 10:00 Passive BCI - Thorsten Zander, TU Berlin, Germany
10:00 - 10:30 BCI for Neurorehabilitation - Surjo R Soekadar, University Hospital of
Tubingen, Germany
10:30 - 11:00 Machine Learning in BCI: Principles and Challenges - Javier Andreu Perez,
Imperial College London, UK
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Construction of a Biocybernetic Loop - Stephen Fairclough, Liverpool John
Moores University, UK
12:00 - 12:30 Use of Optical Brain Imaging for Operator Mental Workload Detection -
Kurtulus Izzetoglu, Drexel University, USA
12:30 - 13:00 Research Highlights and Panel Discussions
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
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Tuesday, 15th July 2014, 0900-1300
Programme
09:00 - 09:20 Arrival and Coffee
09:20 - 09:30 Welcome and Introduction
09:30 - 10:00 Why Flexible Access? Do we really need it? – Dennis Fowler, Columbia
University, USA
10:00 - 10:30 Invited Talk – Julian Teare, Imperial College London, UK
10:30 - 11:00 Developing A Flexible Endoscopic Platform For Surgical Endoscopy: Our
Experience – Silvana Perretta, IRCAD, France
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Access and Performance Trade-Offs in the da Vinci Family – Simon Di
Maio, Intuitive Surgical, USA
12:00 - 12:30 Soft Robots for Minimal Access Surgery: An Update on Progress in EU
Project STIFF-FLOP - Kaspar Althoefer, Kings College London, UK
12:30- 12:50 Challenges and Future Opportunities
Nisha Patel - Endoscopic Closure Devices Valentina Vitiellio - Workspace Constraints for Transluminal and
Endoluminal Surgery Kim, Kiyoung - Development of Endoscopic Tools Using Pulleyless
Rolling Joints With Elastic Fixtures Jianzhong Shang - Developing a Robotic Platform for
Endoluminal/Transluminal Surgery
12:50 - 13:00 Concluding Remarks
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
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Tuesday, 15th July 2014, 14:00-17:30
Programme
14:00 - 14:10 Welcome and setting the scene - Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College
London, UK
14:10 - 14:30 Leveraging Open Source for Medical Robotics Research - Hawkeye King,
Imperial College London
14:30 - 14:50 Integration Of Embedded Sensing for Accurate Control of The RAVEN
Robot - Andrew Lewis, University of Washington, USA
14:50 - 15:10 CARLO: A Computer-Assisted Robot-guided Laser Osteotome - Philippe
Cattin, University of Basel, Switzerland
15:10 - 15:40 Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:00 Lightweight Robots in Medicine - Cyrill von Tiesenhausen, Kuka Laboratories,
Germany
16:00 - 16:20 The da Vinci Research Kit: An Overview - Simon Di Maio, Intuitive Surgical,
USA
16:20 - 16:40 A Modular Open Hardware Medical Robot Control System for the dVinci
Surgical Robot - Greg Fisher, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
16:40 - 17:00 An Open-Source Research Software Environment for the daVinci
Research Toolkit and Other Medical Robotics Research - Russ Taylor,
John Hopkins University, USA
17:00 - 17:30 Panel discussion
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Tuesday, 15th July 2014, 1400-1730
Programme
14:00 - 14:30 In-Situ Image Guidance and Haptic Augmentation for Surgical
Procedures - George Stetten, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
14:30 - 14:50 The i-Knife- Zoltan Takats, Imperial College London, UK
14:50 - 15:10 Implementing Tactile Sense in Smart Surgical Tools for Automated
Interpretation of Tissue Interaction - Peter Brett, Brunel University, UK
15:10 - 15:40 Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:10 Hands on Robot: Current Status and Future Directions - Cameron Riviere,
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
16:10 - 16:30 What Makes Surgical Sense? Characterising and Measuring Tissue
Health - Peter Culmer, University of Leeds, UK
16:30 - 16:50 Hand-Held Force-Feedback Devices - Chris Payne, Imperial College
London, UK
16:50 - 17:15 Panel Discussion
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Tuesday, 15th July 2014, 0900-1700
Programme
WEARABLE ROBOTS
09:15 - 09:25 Welcome - Brian Davies, Imperial College London, UK
09:25 - 09:45 Overview and Introduction to NIHR-HTC Network - Tom Clutton-Brock,
University of Birmingham, UK
09:45 - 10:15 Modern Prosthetic - Saeed Zahedi, Blatchford, UK
10:15 - 10:45 From Exoskeleton to Humanoid - Darwin Caldwell, Italian Institute Technology,
Italy
10:45 - 11:30 Coffee & Demos
11:30 - 11:50 The CYBERLEGS EU Project (The CYBERnetic LowEr-Limb CoGnitive
Ortho-prosthesis) - Nicola Vitiello, Assistant Professor, SSSA Pisa, Italy
11:50 - 12:10 Simple Rehabilitation of the Hand Function - Etienne Burdet Imperial College
London, UK
12:10 - 12:30 The SCRIPT EU project (Supervised Care & Rehabilitation Involving
Personal Tele-robotics) - Farshid Amirabdollahian, University of Hertfordshire,
UK
12:30 - 12:50 Wearable Device for Rehabilitation - Tom Burton, Imperial College London,
UK
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch & poster viewing
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ASSISTIVE ROBOTS
14:00 - 14:30 Exoskeleton and Bionic Legs - Richard Little, Rex Bionics, New Zealand
14:30 - 14:50 The Past and Present of Human Movement Research: Towards the Design
of Human-Like Robots - Kinda Khalaf, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
14:50 - 15:10 EPSRC Support for Assistive Technology and Medical Robotics - Susan
Soulsby (EPSRC) UK
15:10 - 15:30 SPHERE: An EPSRC Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration, (Sensor
Platform for Healthcare in a Residential Environment) - Ian Craddock, Bristol
University, UK
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20 Remote Presence Technology as a Form Of Assistive Robotics and its
Application In Health Care - Svetlana Karpova, InTouch Health, USA
16:20 - 17:00 Panel discussion