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Symposium
Coffee & Registration 08:00 - 08:30
Main Hall & Marquee
08:30 - 08:45
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Welcome Address

Conference Co-Chair:
Professor Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena
Imperial College London
Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena is Professor of Medical Robotics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, where he leads the Mechatronics in Medicine Laboratory and the Applied Mechanics Division. He has been the Engineering Co-Director of the Hamlyn Centre, which is part of the Institute of Global Health Innovation, since July 2020. He is a founding member and great advocate of the Imperial College Robotics Forum, now the first point of contact for roboticists at Imperial College.

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08:45 - 09:30
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Keynote Talk: Professor The Lord Ara Darzi

Conference Co-Chair:
Professor The Lord Darzi of Denham
Professor Darzi holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London, the Royal Marsden Hospital and the Institute of Cancer Research. He is Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and Chair of Imperial College Health Partners. He is an Honorary Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College Hospital NHS Trust. His research is directed towards achieving best surgical practice through innovation in surgery, enhancing patient safety and the quality of healthcare.

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09:30 - 10:30
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Session 1: Endoluminal Devices

Session Chairs: TBC
09:30 Zicong Wu, S.M.Hadi Sadati, Panagiotis Vartholomeos, Mohamed E. M. K. Abdelaziz, Burak Temelkuran, Daniel R Leff and Christos Bergeles MammoBot v2.0: Sensorised Miniature Steerable Eversion Growing Robot for Breast Intraductal Navigation
09:42 Giovanni Distefano, Federica Barontini, Francesco Marzola, Matteo Pescio, Federica Corso, Federica Secundo, Pietro Leoncini, Giulio Dagnino, Alberto Arezzo and Mario Morino Transanal Endoscopic excision with Da Vinci Single port (DSP) for low rectal neoplasm
09:54 Olivia Richards, Keith Obstein and Nabil Simaan Exploring Accelerated Skill Acquisition via Tandem Training for Colonoscopy
10:06 Korn Borvorntanajanya, Jialei Shi, Enrico Franco and Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena Real-Time Leak Detection in Soft Everting Robotic Colonoscopes
10:18 Johanna Dinkel, Anja Lachenmaier, Peter Pott and Max Schaefer Modular Test Rig to Evaluate Environmental Interactions of Soft Everting Robots in Colonoscopy

Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:00
Hall & Marquee
11:00 - 12:00
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Session 2: Imaging & Visualisation in Robotic Surgery

Session Chairs: TBC
11:00 Benjamin Mueller, Rui Guo, Emily Summers and Busisiwe Mlambo Simultaneous Surgical Milestone Detection and Anatomical Metric Measurement In Robotic Prostatectomy
11:12 Nikita Murasovs, Peter Lloyd, Alistair Bacchetti, Yael May, James Chandler, Jurgen Schneider and Pietro Valdastri Gradient Pulling of a Tethered Robot via a Magnetic Resonance Imaging System
11:24 Young-Ho Kim, Ankur Kapoor and Jaeyoung Huh Pose Estimation for Intra-cardiac Echocardiography Catheter via AI-Based Anatomical Understanding
11:36 Sanjana Mendu, Shrivatsa Mishra, Victor Murcia Ruiz, Rafael Fricks, Rayan Harari, Roger Daglius Dias, Theodora Chaspari and Marco Zenati Voice Acoustic Patterns Predict Quality of Interprofessional Team Behavior in Cardiac Surgery
11:48 Yin Yaru, Hesham Sayed Mohamed, Yihang Zhou, Myles Smith and Stamatia Giannarou Reliable Intraoperative Surgical Navigation with AI-Assisted Mixed Reality Visualization

12:00 - 13:00
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Session 3: Sensory Feedback & Perception

Session Chairs: TBC
12:00 Frank Julia Wise, Yitong Lu and Sheila Russo Soft Optical Shape-Sensing with Thin-Film Color Tuning for Autonomous Soft Robotic Bronchoscopy Navigation
12:12 Yao Zhang, Zhuoqi Cheng, Mouloud Ourak, Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu and Emmanuel Vander Poorten Feasibility of electrical bio-impedance sensing for tissue discrimination to assist deep needle insertion
12:24 Susheela Sharma, Jason Shrand, Nithin Kumar, S. Duke Herrell III, Nicholas Kavoussi, Ahmed Ghazi, Eric Barth, Ipek Oguz, Alan Kuntz and Robert J. Webster III Touching is Believing: Contact Sensing to Enhance Situational Awareness for Concentric Tube Robots
12:36 Mirroyal Ismayilov, Christos Bergeles and Lukas Lindenroth Ballooning membrane actuator-based intrinsic force sensing and control
12:48 Amirhosein Alian, James Avery and George Mylonas Proprioceptive Shape Reconstruction of Fluidic Actuators for Endoscopic Applications

Lunch & Exhibition 13:00 - 14:00
Hall, Marquee & Exhibition Centre
14:00 - 14:45
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Poster Teasers Session 1

Session Chairs: TBC
14:00:00 1 Veronica Penza, Domenico Soriero, Eleonora Balestra, Alberto Neri, Jesus Ortiz and Leonardo S. Mattos VR vs AR for Surgical Guidance: Which Is More Effective in Enhancing Surgical Awareness?
14:01:30 2 Fabian C. Landers, Pascal Theiler, Oliver Brinkmann, Derick Sivakumaran, Vitaly Pustovalov, Quentin Boehler, Bradley J. Nelson and Salvador Pané Bridging In Vitro and In Vivo: Realistic Vascular Models for Endovascular Robotics
14:03:00 3 Margherita Ciabattini, Alexandre Calado, Rajat Sawant, Nawal Khan, Davide Prezzi, Michela Antonelli, Armando Stabile, Alberto Briganti, Giorgio Gandaglia, Francesco Montorsi, Nicholas Raison, Sebastien Ourselin, Prokar Dasgupta and Alejandro Granados Effect of Nerve Sparing Gestures on Positive Surgical Margins during Robotic-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy
14:04:30 4 Mateusz Wojcikowski, Diego Dall'Alba, Sabina Martyniak, Szymon Plotka, Renata Szydlak, Piotr Walecki, Andrzej A Kononowicz and Przemyslaw Korzeniowski Affordable Virtual Reality Simulation for Robotic Surgery: Preliminary Usability and Educational Evaluation
14:06:00 5 Timothée Portha, Laurent Barbé, François Geiskopf, Anne Josset, Paolo Cabras, Jonathan Vappou and Pierre Renaud Evaluation of a pneumatic positioning system for robotized MR-guided HIFU therapy
14:07:30 6 Federico Mariano, Giovanni Berselli, Elena De Momi, Gianluca Piatelli and Leonardo S. Mattos A New Compliant RCM Mechanism for Robotic Neuroendoscopy
14:09:00 7 Nima Hemati, Alireza Zahedi, Amir Sayadi, Renzo Cecere and Amir Hooshiar Kinematics-informed Latent Space Disentanglement for Kinematic Control of Soft Interventional Robots
14:10:30 8 Namrata U. Nayar, Phillip Tran, Abdulhamit Donder and Pierre E. Dupont Universal Robotic Platform for Cardiac Procedures with Task-Specific Control Modes
14:12:00 9 Rayan Younis, Ariel Rodriguez Jimenez, Mats Ole Ellenberg, Gregor Just, Katja Brigitta Eckstein, Katja Krug, Yichen Fan, Tianfang Lin, Jens Wagner, Julien Fischer, Martin Lelis, Anna Katharina Barth, Ann Wierick, André Schulze, Sebastian Schröder, Jens Krzywinski, Frank Ellinger, Stefan Gumhold, Sebastian Bodenstedt, Marius Distler, Stefanie Speidel, Jürgen Weitz and Martin Wagner Towards Tactile Internet in Surgery: Multimodal Sensor Data Acquisition for Gesture Recognition and Immersive Tele-Mentoring
14:13:30 10 Sepehr Madani, Robert Turcotte, Ahmed Aoude and Amir Hooshiar Active Parallax-effect Compensation (APC) for Fiducial-free Surgical Augmented Reality: Feasibility and Performance
14:15:00 11 Laura Connolly, Anton Deguet, Adnan Munawar, Tamas Ungi, Chris Yeung, Russell H. Taylor, Parvin Mousavi, Gabor Fichtinger and Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad Fine-Tuning a Virtual Fixture Guidance System for Breast-Conserving Surgery based on Noticeable Differences
14:16:30 12 Tommaso Da Col, Ertug Ovur and Elena De Momi A Novel Reference Generation Model for Controlling the Endoscope of the da Vinci Research Kit
14:18:00 13 Joy Haegemans, Emmanuel Vander Poorten, Daniel Costa, Pengwei Xu, Maarten Schoovaerts, Mouloud Ourak, Ivo De Clerck and Peter Stalmans Intraoperative OCT Segmentation using SAM2 for Robot-Assisted Subretinal Injection
14:19:30 14 Andrea Borgno, Giulio Dagnino, Federica Corso, Federica Secundo, Pietro Leoncini, Roberto Spagnulo, Matteo Pescio, Federica Barontini, Giovanni Distefano, Alberto Arezzo and Francesco Marzola Vision Transformers for Surgical Scene Understanding in Minimally Invasive Robotic Suturing
14:21:00 15 Kehan Yang, Tess B. Meier, Gregory S. Fischer and Loris Fichera Assessing Surgical Skills Acquisition for Robotic Assisted Operations with Optical Neuroimaging
14:22:30 16 Bangsheng Jiang, Julien Quarez, Yang Li, Hassna Irzan, Mahrukh Saeed, Matthew Elliot, Oscar MacCormac, Aya Elshalakany, Mariam Awan, James Knight, Jonathan Shapey and Alejandro Granados SphenoidTalk: Towards Real-Time Expert Commentary Prediction during Transsphenoidal Surgery
14:24:00 17 Chi Xu, Brudfors Mikael, Jinshi Zhao, Libaihe Tian and Stamatia Giannarou AI-assisted Robotic Platform for Automatic Endomicroscopic Tissue Scanning
14:26:30 18 Hun Chan Lee, Hyunje Cho, Avantika Kothandaraman, Devin Dembrow, Jinkyu Kwon and Sheila Russo A Soft-Rigid Hybrid Robot with Optical Proprioceptive Sensing for Laser-Assisted Surgery
14:28:00 19 Burak Ozdemir, Pietro Valdastri and James Chandler A Compact High Dexterity Tendon-Driven Continuum Robot Design for Robotically Assisted Bronchoscopy
14:29:30 20 Davide Nardi, Luca Beber, Matteo Saveriano, Daniele Fontanelli, Luigi Palopoli and Edoardo Lamon Towards Anatomically Accurate Generation of Virtual Fixtures for Teleoperated Examinations
14:31:00 21 Alex Ranne, Heiko Maier, Jinshi Zhao, Burak Temelkuran, Nassir Navab and Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena Towards Fibre Drawn Electrode Catheters for Bioelectric Navigation
14:32:30 22 Zeyu Song, Jonathan Aitken, Mike Thomson and Sanja Dogramadzi Hand-Finger Kinematics and sEMG-Based Muscular Effort for Ergonomic Analysis of Colonoscopy Insertion: A Preliminary Study
14:34:00 23 Jaeyoung Huh, Ankur Kapoor and Young-Ho Kim Guidance for Intra-cardiac Echocardiography Manipulation to Maintain Continuous Therapy Device Tip Visibility
14:35:30 24 Andrea Libertad Yanez Trujillo, Joshua Davy, James Chandler, James Avery and Pietro Valdastri Optimal Desing of Magnetically Actuatable Tips for Miniature Medical Soft Everting Robots
14:37:00 25 Charvi Dave, Wai Miu Emma Liu, Callum Pearse, Julien Quarez, Yang Li, Ben Challacombe, Prokar Dasgupta, Nicholas Raison and Alejandro Granados Hands On: A Comparative Analysis of Left- and Right-Hand Workspaces in Surgical Robotic Skills Training
14:38:30 26 Max McCandless, Silvan Otto, Sammy Elmariah, Nathaniel Langer and Pierre Dupont Toward Robot-Assisted Transcatheter Laser-based Cutting of Calcified Heart Valve Tissue
14:40:00 27 Changyan He, Robert H. Nguyen, Paul H. Kang, Majid Roshanfar, Lingbo Cheng, Eric Diller, James Drake and Thomas Looi FBG Sensors Enable Subtle Tip Touch of a Concentric Tube Robot in Robot-Assisted Neurosurgery

14:45 - 15:45
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Global Surgery Forum

Coffee Break 15:45 - 16:15
Marquee & Hall
16:15 - 17:00
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Keynote Talk: Surgical Education at Scale

Dr Catherine Mohr:
President, Intuitive Foundation
Chair: Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena
Imperial College London
Dr. Catherine Mohr is President of the Intuitive Foundation, the corporate Foundation of Intuitive Surgical, a high technology Silicon Valley based company that makes the da Vinci surgical robot. In this role she invests in research and development programs aimed at understanding and improving education of medical practitioners around the world and applying novel technologies aimed at reducing the global burden of disease.

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17:00 - 18:00
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Session 4: Smart Devices & Methods

Session Chairs: TBC
17:00 Pierre E. Dupont, Namrata U. Nayar, Phillip Tran, Sammy Elmariah and Léa Pistorius Using Robotics to Facilitate Transcatheter Valve Repair
17:12 Ahmed Zohaib Zaidi, Maria Grazia Polizzotto, Arianna Menciassi and Linda Paternò Self-Adaptive Transfemoral Prosthetic Socket with a Motorized Corset
17:24 Ethan Wilke, Jesse F. D'Almeida, Irving J. Zamora, Harold N. Lovvorn and Robert J. Webster III A Needlescopic Robot to Enable Closed-Chest Congenital Tracheal-Esophageal Defect Repair
17:36 Peter Kazanzides, Hao Yang, Anton Deguet, Loris Fichera, Jie Ying Wu and Haoying Zhou Gravity Compensation of the dVRK-Si Patient Side Manipulator based on Dynamic Model Identification
17:48 Tommaso Da Col and Pengrong Lyu The STORM-BOTS Grasper: A Novel Surgical Instrument for Vitreo-Retinal Surgery based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers

18:00 - 19:00
Location: Hall & Exhibition Centre

Drinks Reception

All delegates and speakers are invited to join us for a drinks reception. Drinks and canapés are served in the Hall and Exhibition area.

Symposium
Registration & Coffee 08:00 - 08:30
Marquee & Hall
08:30 - 09:30
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Session 5: Micro-Robots & Micro-Surgery

Session Chairs:
TBC
08:30 Vitaly Pustovalov, Derick Sivakumaran, Fabian Landers, Simone Gervasoni, Quentin Boehler, Salvador Pané and Bradley Nelson The Double-Navion: Electromagnetic Navigation for Gradient-Based Microrobot Control
08:42 Benjamin A. Minor, Zachary J. Olson, Alan Kuntz and Jake J. Abbott A Rotational Stiffness Model for Magnetic Microrobots in Soft Tissue
08:54 Derick Sivakumaran, Fabian C. Landers, Vitaly Pustovalov, Miriam Weisskopf, Tilman Schubert, Quentin Boehler, Zsolt Kulcsar, Salvador Pane Vidal and Brad Nelson A Clinically Translatable Method to Control Microrobots in the Vascular System
09:06 Juliane Mayer, Julia Narr and Peter P. Pott Workspace Characterization of a Multi-Lumen Eccentric Tube Robot for Microsurgery
09:18 Leonardo S. Mattos, Lapo Carrieri, Alperen Acemoglu and Michele Di Lucchio Design and Characterization of a Free-Beam Laser Microsurgery System based on Rotary Voice Coil Actuators

09:30 - 10:15
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Keynote Talk: Next Steps in Surgical Robotics: AI, Automation, Remote Workflow

Professor Yuman Fong:
Surgical Oncologist,
City of Hope Medical Centre
Chair: Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena
Imperial College London
Prof. Yuman Fong is known clinically for his work in liver surgery–especially for helping prove liver resection to be potentially curative for stage IV colorectal liver metastases. For his clinical accomplishments, he was awarded the Layton F. Rikkers Master Clinician Award from the SSAT. Dr. Fong’s laboratory focus is in the field of gene therapy, engineering viruses and immune cells for the killing of cancer. His surgical translational work has included design of surgical tools including imaging technologies, ablative technologies and surgical robots. His work in engineering has led to election to the American Institute of Medical and Biologic Engineering.

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Coffee Break 10:15 - 10:45
Marquee & Hall
10:45 - 11:45
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Session 6: Telesurgery

Session Chairs: TBC
10:45 David Black and Septimiu Salcudean Robotic versus Human Teleoperation for Remote Ultrasound
10:57 Manaf Habeeb, Christos Bergeles, Henrik Gollee, Martin Huber, Aban Merali and Carlo Seneci Development of an Open-Platform Adaptor to Integrate Da Vinci Si Instruments with Collaborative Robotic System
11:09 Claas Ehmke, Matthias Karst, Florian Heemeyer, Quentin Boehler and Bradley Nelson Extended Reality Platform for Teleoperated Neurovascular Interventions using Electromagnetic Navigation Systems
11:21 Shuai Zeng, Jianchang Zhao, Yuan Xing, Chi Zhang and Bo Guan Network-Adaptive Teleoperated Surgical Control System with S2S Prediction
11:33 Jaesung Hong, Deokgi Jeung, Joonho Seo and Seongbo Shim Motorized Optical Tracking System with Variable Tracking Range for Remote Surgery Application

11:45 - 12:45
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Session 7: Surgical Autonomy & AI

Session Chairs: TBC
11:45 S.M.Hadi Sadati, Lennart Karstensen, Nikola Fischer, Benjamin Jackson, Harry Robertshaw, Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, Alejandro Granados, Christos Bergeles and Thomas Booth Autonomous Endovascular Navigation with a Long CTR: In-Vitro Studies
11:57 Nicolas Zevallos, Cecilia G. Morales, Andrew Orekhov, Tejas Rane, Hernando Gomez, Francis X Guyette, Michael Pinsky, John Galeotti, Artur Dubrawski and Howie Choset Automatic Cannulation of Femoral Vessels in a Porcine Shock Model
12:09 Junlei Hu, Dominic Jones and Pietro Valdastri Autonomous Gallbladder Exposure for Robotic Cholecystectomy information on submission
12:21 Camilla Minghetti, Matteo Pescio, Francesco Marzola, Federica Barontini, Federica Corso, Pietro Leoncini, Federica Secundo, Giovanni Distefano, Francesca Farnesi, Carlo Alberto Ammirati, Giacomo Lo Secco, Alberto Arezzo and Giulio Dagnino Depth Estimation in Colonoscopy using Foundation Models
12:33 Catherine Abraham, Sean R. Anderson, Sanjeev Madan and Sanja Dogramadzi Reinforcement Learning for Robot Fracture Reduction Surgery

Lunch & Exhibition 12:45 - 13:45
Hall, Marquee and Exhibition Centre
13:45 - 14:30
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Poster Teaser Presentations: Session 2

Session Chairs: TBC
13:45:00 28 Max B. Schäfer, Jonas Hotz, Mareike Spieß, Fabian Baumer, Konstantin Frenzel and Peter P. Pott Robot-Assisted Surgery: High-Bandwidth Haptic Feedback Using a Cable-Driven Input Device
13:46:30 29 Yu-Jui Sung, Haoran Zheng, Haoen Li, Zhaonan Shi, Keith Cook, Howie Choset and Lu Li Multilayer IoT Architecture for Automated and Scalable Medical Device Monitoring: Validation in Multi-day Animal Studies
13:48:00 30 Roger Daglius Dias, Vaibhav Unhelkar, Kenneth Shann, Allison Weinberg, Geoffrey Rance, Rithy Srey, Paul O'Gara, Alexander Shapeton, Jamie Robertson, Paulo Borges, Robson Verly, Sanjana Mendu and Marco Zenati Evaluation of Large Language Models to Detect Team Mental Model Misalignments During Cardiac Surgery
13:49:30 31 Yaxi Wang, Vivek Muthurangu and Helge Wurdemann A Teleoperated Collaborative Control Framework for Robotic Right Heart Catheterization
13:51:00 32 Alireza Zahedi, Amir Sayadi, Renzo Cecere and Amir Hooshiar Simultaneous Forward and Inverse Kinematic Learning of Soft Robots Using Bi-Level Neural Encoding
13:52:30 33 Rory Bennett, Tristan Barrett, Nikita Sushentsev, Zion Tse and Kanglung Lee Point-of-Care Ultrasound and Machine Learning for use in Prostate Cancer Screening
13:54:00 34 Pietro Leoncini, Francesco Marzola, Matteo Pescio, Federica Corso, Federica Secundo, Federica Barontini, Giovanni Distefano, Alberto Arezzo and Giulio Dagnino Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap for Surgical Tool Segmentation in Robotic Suturing with Generative AI
13:55:30 35 Stuart Corr, Jacob Watson, Carlos Quintero-Peña, Anna Moise, Austin Shelton, Kelvin Boateng, Rose McCullough, Kevin Jacobson, Anne Stansa, Pablo Leal, Linda Le, Charudatta Bavare and Alan Lumsden Evaluation of RFID Technology for Intraoperative Analytics in Carotid Artery Surgery: A Pilot Clinical Study
13:57:00 36 Shivam Gupta and Onaizah Onaizah Magnetically Actuated Capsule for Targeted Drug Delivery
13:58:30 37 Abby Grillo, John Peters, Eric Barth and Robert Webster III A 6-DOF Positioning Platform for MR-Guided, In-Scanner Transforaminal Epilepsy Intervention
14:00:00 38 Nillan Nimal, Arion Law, Connor Lee, Radian Gondokaryono, Adnan Munawar, James Drake, Tim Vanmieghem and Thomas Looi A Da Vinci Continuum Tools Simulator for Open Spina Bifida Repair - Preliminary Results
14:01:30 39 Audric Tamby, Martin Pearson and Antonia Tzemanaki Force and vibration assessment during bone grinding tasks: a preliminary study
14:03:00 40 Vincent Schorp, Frédéric Giraud, Gianluca Pargätzi, Michael Wäspe, Lorenzo von Ritter-Zahony, Marcel Wegmann, Nicola A. Cavalcanti, John Garcia Henao, Nicholas Bünger, Dominique Cachin, Sebastiano Caprara, Philipp Fürnstahl and Fabio Carrillo A Modular Edge Device Network for Surgery Digitalization
14:04:30 41 Federica Corso, Roberto Spagnulo, Francesco Marzola, Matteo Pescio, Federica Secundo, Federica Barontini, Kengo Hayashi, Giovanni Distefano, Pietro Leoncini, Alberto Arezzo and Giulio Dagnino Vision-Based Suture Assessment in Minimally Invasive Surgery: An Ex-Vivo Pilot Study
14:06:00 42 Sanjana Mendu, Roger D. Dias, Erica Ordali, Pablo Marcos-Prieto, Adrian Rubio-Solis, Kaizhe Jin, Kylie M. Ford, George Mylonas and Marco A. Zenati Impact of Surgical Flow Disruptions on Neuroergonomics in a High-Fidelity Cardiac Surgery Simulation Environment
14:07:30 43 Junling Fu, Andrea Repetto, Zijian Cai, Veronica Ruozzi, Elisa Iovene, Bo Wang, Runing Xiao, Alberto Redaelli and Elena De Momi Towards Robot-assisted Remote Echography: Preliminary Results on Region-specified Trajectory Generation and Compliant Control
14:09:00 44 Hsin-Mei Chen, Stuart Corr, Shannan Hamlin and Kathryn Roberts A Randomized Study Demonstrates the Benefits of Virtual Reality in Nursing Skill Assessment Training
14:10:30 45 Rory Bennett, Tristan Barrett, Vincent Gnanapragasam and Zion Tse AI Enhanced Prostate Size Inference using Ultrasound Images for NHS Prostate Cancer Risk Stratification/Screening
14:12:00 46 Kevin Cleary, Gang Li, Tyler Salvador, Gernot Kronreif, Martin Fuerst, Ali Uneri, Tianyi Ye, Steve Pieper, Cristian Atria and Matthew Oetgen Image-guided robotic assistance to improve precision and reduce x-ray dose in orthopedic surgery for pediatric hip pinning
14:13:30 47 Nicholas E. Pacheco, Callahan G. Henry, Andrea Arnold and Loris Fichera Virtual Palpation: A Novel Method to Identify the Physical Properties of Tissue for Laser Surgery
14:15:00 48 Maleeha Al Hamadani, Lukas Lindenroth and Sebastien Ourselin Soft Material Valve For Soft Robotics and Implantable Device Applications
14:16:30 49 Haipeng Liang, Tristan Barrett, Yanbo Feng, Christopher Shepherd, Wellington Chishaya and Zion Tse Harmonic Stepper Motor Driven robot for MRI-Guided Needle Therapy
14:18:00 50 Haozheng Xu, Yanrui Liu, Jie Li, Jinling Qiu, Yulin Huang, Mikael Brudfors, Oliver Kutter and Stamatia Giannarou AI-assisted Robot Control with Markerless Visual Guidance
14:19:30 51 Manisha Natarajan, Zhaoxin Li, Letian Chen, Zixuan Wu, Paul Ogara, Paulo Borges, Geoffrey Rance, Rithy Srey, Ryan Harari, Sanjana Mendu, Marco Zenati, Roger Dias and Matthew Gombolay AI-Based Decision Support for Perfusionists during Cardiopulmonary Bypass
14:21:00 52 Vittorio Francescon, Nikita Murasovs, Peter Lloyd, Onaizah Onaizah, Damith Suresh Chathuranga and Pietro Valdastri Closed-Loop Shape Control of a Magnetic Soft Continuum Robot
14:22:30 53 Tess Meier, Kehan Yang, Andrew Daudelin, Christopher Nycz, Loris Fichera, Benjamin Nephew, Erin Solovey and Gregory Fischer Co-registration of brain activation from concurrent fNIRS and fMRI during hand exoskeleton use towards monitoring neurorehabilitation
14:24:00 54 Virginia Caddick, Aws Almukhtar, Miranda Ramirez, Ara Darzi, Felipe Orihuela-Espina and Daniel Leff Understanding the Impact of Cognitive Load on Neural Activation Patterns During Laparoscopic Appendicectomy Simulation Training

14:30 - 15:30
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Industry Forum

Moderator: Dan Stoyanov
University College London

Coffee Break 15:30 - 16:00
Hall, Marquee and Exhibition Centre
16:00 - 17:00
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Session 8: Towards Clinical Adoption

Session Chairs: TBC
16:00 Zachary Olson, Cole Yearsley, Nicholas Posselli, Brittany Coats, Brian Zaugg and Jake Abbott Head-mounted Surgical Robots for Big-bubble Formation During Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratectomy on a Moving Patient
16:12 Wolfgang Ptacek, Stefan Wolfsberger, Martin Fuerst, Alexander Micko and Gernot Kronreif EndoGuide – Using a small-size robot system for endoscope guidance in neurosurgical procedures
16:24 Jacob Watson, Balazs Lengyel, Ponraj Chinnadurai, Rebecca Swann, Stuart Corr, Charudatta Bavare and Alan Lumsden DaVinci Single Port Robot Applications in the Extremities for Vascular Surgery: Feasibility and Technique
16:36 Roger Daglius Dias, Lauren Kennedy-Metz, Geoffrey Rance, Rithy Srey, Rayan Ebnali Harari, Paulo Borges, Sanjana Mendu, Paul O'Gara, Matthew Gombolay and Marco Zenati Monitoring of Perfusionists’ Cognitive Load and Stress and Patients’ Oxygen Delivery during Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Cardiac Surgery
16:48 Viola Del Bono, Max McCandless, Arincheyan Gerald, Emma Capaldi, Johann Pang, Casper Muter, Mark Baldiswieler, Hiroyuki Aihara and Sheila Russo Ex-vivo and In-vivo Evaluations of a Soft Robot for Colonoscopy

17:00 - 17:45
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Keynote Talk: Should I Join A Medical Robotics Startup?

Dr David Noonan:
Chief Technology Officer, Moon Surgical
Chair: Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena
Imperial College London
Dr. David Noonan has a long history of work experience in the medical field. In 2005, they began their career as a Design Engineer at St. James's Hospital. In 2006, they moved on to become a Visiting Research Associate at King's College London. From 2008 to 2012, they were a Research Associate at Imperial College London, where they developed a series of articulated robotic devices to enhance access, imaging and functional sensing in a minimally invasive surgical environment.

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17:45 - 18:00
Location: Ondaateje Lecture Theatre

Awards & Closing Ceremony

Chairs:
Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena
Imperial College London
Robert Merrifield
Imperial College London