6 papers
Investigating a Policy-Based Formulation for Endoscopic Camera Pose Recovery
Jan Emily Mangulabnan, Akshat Chauhan, Laura Fleig +7
In endoscopic surgery, surgeons continuously locate the endoscopic view relative to the anatomy by interpreting the evolving visual appearance of the intraoperative scene in the co…
Humanoid Robots as First Assistants in Endoscopic Surgery
Sue Min Cho, Jan Emily Mangulabnan, Han Zhang +7
Humanoid robots have become a focal point of technological ambition, with claims of surgical capability within years in mainstream discourse. These projections are aspirational yet…
Towards Controllable Video Synthesis of Routine and Rare OR Events
Dominik Schneider, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Sampath Rapuri +8
Purpose: Curating large-scale datasets of operating room (OR) workflow, encompassing rare, safety-critical, or atypical events, remains operationally and ethically challenging. Thi…
TwinOR: Photorealistic Digital Twins of Dynamic Operating Rooms for Embodied AI Research
Han Zhang, Yiqing Shen, Roger D. Soberanis-Mukul +11
Developing embodied AI for intelligent surgical systems requires safe, controllable environments for continual learning and evaluation. However, safety regulations and operational…
Explainable AI for Automated User-specific Feedback in Surgical Skill Acquisition
Catalina Gomez, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Xinrui Zou +9
Traditional surgical skill acquisition relies heavily on expert feedback, yet direct access is limited by faculty availability and variability in subjective assessments. While trai…
Beyond Rigid AI: Towards Natural Human-Machine Symbiosis for Interoperative Surgical Assistance
Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Jiru Xu, Roger D. Soberanis Mukul +6
Emerging surgical data science and robotics solutions, especially those designed to provide assistance in situ, require natural human-machine interfaces to fully unlock their poten…