ECE Department Seminar | Automation and Intelligence in Robotic Surgery: See, Plan, Move, and Learn

Description

Zih-Yun "Sarah" Chiu, an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Computer Science and a member of the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute, will give a talk titled "Automation and Intelligence in Robotic Surgery: See, Plan, Move, and Learn" for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

Abstract:

Bringing automation and intelligence into robotic surgery holds immense potential to revolutionize healthcare delivery by alleviating physician workload and extending critical treatments to underserved populations. This talk will discuss how modular integration of model-based and learning-based methods enables robots to achieve three core capabilities required for automation in robotic surgery: environment understanding with high precision (sensing), reliable manipulation in medical environments that guarantee patient safety and minimize failures (planning), and continuous medical knowledge accumulation to operate in diverse clinical scenarios (adaptability). I will conclude this talk with promising future directions in autonomous and intelligent surgical robot systems.