The Role of AI for Next-generation Robotic Surgery

Speaker:
Prof. DOU Qi

Abstract:
With advancements in information technologies and medicine, the operating room has undergone tremendous transformations evolving into a highly complicated environment. These achievements further innovate the surgery procedure and have great promise to enhance the patient’s safety. Within the new generation of operating theatre, the computer-assisted system plays an important role to provide surgeons with reliable contextual support. In this talk, I will present a series of deep learning methods towards interdisciplinary researches at artificial intelligence for surgical robotic perception, for automated surgical workflow analysis, instrument presence detection, surgical tool segmentation, surgical scene perception, etc. The proposed methods cover a wide range of deep learning topics including semi-supervised learning, relational graph learning, learning-based stereo depth estimation, reinforcement learning, etc. The challenges, up-to-date progresses and promising future directions of AI-powered context-aware operating theaters will also be discussed.

Biography:
Prof. DOU Qi is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, CUHK. Her research interests lie in innovating collaborative intelligent systems that support delivery of high-quality medical diagnosis, intervention and education for next-generation healthcare. Her team pioneers synergistic advancements across artificial intelligence, medical image analysis, surgical data science, and medical robotics, with an impact to support demanding clinical workflows such as robotic minimally invasive surgery.

Enquiries: Miss Karen Chan at Tel. 3943 8439

Date

Nov 04, 2021
Expired!

Time

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location

Room 121, 1/F, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building, CUHK

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