CIS I (601.455/655) Fall 2024 Schedule

Note: This page is subject to change

I am still working out the detailed schedule for 2024. In particular, I am still considering the dates for handing out assignments and when they are due.
Also, I have currently left some place-holders for guest lectures. I may need to juggle these a bit, depending on when people are available.

Week 1

August 27
- Fall 2024 Organization Lecture
- CIS I Introductory Lecture
August 29
- Surgical CAD/CAM Case Study - - Joint Reconstruction Surgery
  - Reference material

Week 2

September 3
- Guest Lecture from Prof. Axel Krieger
  - The Future of Surgical Robotics: Vision, Challenges, and the Science to Meet Them
September 5
- Begin Basic Mathematical Methods for CIS
- Additional Reference Material
  - Linear algebra review
  - Frame Transformations in Computer Integrated Surgery: A Graphical Introduction (Ben Killeen)

Week 3

September 10
- Conclude Basic Mathematical Methods for CIS
- Hand out Homework Assignment #1
September 12
- Computing rigid 3D-3D transformations from point and line pairs
  - Reference material: Excellent Wikipedia article on point set registration

Week 4

September 17
- Localizers
  - Reference Material
    - CIS Book Chapters 21-23
    - Localizers for Frameless Neuronavigation Systems
    - Slides from lecture by Allison Okamura (Stanford University)
    - Next-Generation Surgical Navigation Systems in Sinus and Skull Base Surgery
    - Also, you can do web searches on “surgical navigation technology”
September 19
- Begin Calibration

Week 5

September 24
- Guest Lecture: Computer-Integrated Surgery: Applications in Neurosurgery (Dr. Tito Porras)
  - Computer-Integrated Surgery: Applications in Neurosurgery
- Homework #1 Due
September 26
- FinishCalibration
- Hand out Programming Assignments #1 and #2

Week 6

October 1
- Begin Segmentation and Modeling
  - Supplemental material: 2018 Guest lecture by Prof. Jerry Prince #1
October 3
- Finish Segmentation and Modeling
  - 2018 Guest lecture by Prof. Jerry Prince #2
  - Surface simplification inside a tolerance volume (Andre Gueziec's method)
- Hand out Homework #2

Week 7

October 8
- Registration (Part 1)
  - Finding point pairs for Iterated Closest Point algorithms
    - Reference Material
      - CIS Book Chapters 5 & 7
      - CIS Book pp 3-75
      - Wikipedia article on point set registration
October 10
- Programming Assignment #1 due
  - Guest lecture TBD or continue with Registration

Week 8

October 15
- Finish Registration (Part 2)
  - Coherent Point Drift Slides
  - Reference and supplemental Material
October 17
- WSE Fall Break - No class

Week 9

October 22
- Registration (Part 3)
  - Supplemental material
October 24
- Hand out Programming Assignments #3 and #4
  - Programming Assignments 3, 4, and 5 Data
- Finish Registration (Part 3)
  - Supplemental material
- Begin * Medical Robotics, Constrained Control and Virtual Fixtures (Part 1) (if time)

Week 10

October 29
- Homework 2 Due
- Guest lecture from Prof. Emad Boctor

October 31
- FinishMedical Robotics, Constrained Control and Virtual Fixtures (Part 1)
- Begin Medical Robotics, Constrained Control and Virtual Fixtures (Part 2)
  - Supplemental Material: Anatomical Mesh-Based Virtual Fixtures for Surgical Robots

Week 11

November 5

November 7
- Finish Human-Machine Partnerships in Surgical Robot Systems

Week 12

November 12
- Guest Lecture from Manish Sahu on robotic assistance for ENT surgery
November 14
- Programming Assignment #3 due
- Hand Out Optional Programming Assignment 5
  - Notes for PA#5: Deformable Registration to a Statistical Shape Model
- Case study: Craniofacial osteotomies

Week 13

November 19
- Guest Lecture from Dr. Swaroop Vedula
  - “What Can AI Teach a Surgeon”
November 21
- Homework Assignment 3 Due
- Hand out Homework Assignment 4
- Guest Lecture from Prof. Iulian Iordachita

Week 14

November 26 - NO Class (Thanksgiving Week)
November 28 - NO Class (Thanksgiving Week)

Week 15

December 3
- Guest Lecture from Prof. Todd McNutt (Prof. Taylor at Malone Center Symposium)
December 5
- Safety Case Study: The Therac 25 Accidents
  - Background Material:
    - Nancy Levenson and Clark Turner, "The Investigation of the Therac 25 Accidents", Computer 26(7) pp18-41
    - Therac-25 Accidents: An Updated Version of the Original Accident Investigation Paper (by Nancy Leveson) from Dr. Leveson's Book, Software, System Safety, and Computers, Addison Wesley, 1995.
December 7 (Saturday)
- Programming Assignment 4 Due (1:30PM)
- Homework Assignment 4 Due (1:30PM)

Optional Programming Assignment #5

There will be no written final exam for CIS I. Instead, there is an optional programming assignment that can be used to improve a student's grade.
The due date (subject to change) is December 14 at 1:30PM.
If this due date conflicts with another final exam on the same date, then contact the TA. We will give an extension until the first day on which you do not have an exam, but no further. We have very limited flexibility for this, since the assignments can require considerable time to grade.