Note: This schedule is very tentative and will be changed significantly in the first weeks of the course, as projects and project teams are defined. After that, it will be modified as the semester unfolds.

• Follow this link to return to the main CIS II page
• Follow this link to see the projects for 2025
• list of the project ideas and each individual set of slides for 2025

January 21

• Introduction and organization
• Non-disclosure agreement
• Presentation of project ideas
  • Benjamin Killeen: 9, 10
  • Mojtaba Esfandiari: 3,4
  • Adnan Munawar: 15, 16, 17
  • Ugur Tumerdem: 6,7

January 23

• Presentation of project ideas
  • Amit Jain: 1
  • Peiyao Zhang: 5
  • Aabhas Jain: 2
  • Jeeun Kang: 11, 12, 13
  • Manish Sahu: 24, 25
  • Adnan Munawar: 18, 20
  • Jesse Haworth: 21, 22, 23
  • Iulian Iordachita: 35

January 28

• Presentation of project ideas
  • Yixuan Wu: 26, 27
  • Ugur Tumerdem: 6, 8
  • Balazs Vagvolgyi: 29, 30
  • Hisashi Ishida: 31, 32
  • Haoying (Jack) Zhou: 33
  • Jasmine Cho: 39
  • Todd McNutt: 28
  • Adnan Munawar: 36
  • Nick Greene: 41

January 30

• Presentation of project ideas
  • Hao Ding: 37, 38, 40
  • Jintan Zhang: 34
  • Lalithkumar Seenivasan: 42
  • Deepa Galaiya: 43
• Guest lecture on medical device development and project management (Prof. Kazanzides)
  • MSKCC System Requirements
  • Development Process

February 4

• Project plan presentations (2025_project_plan_presentation_rubric.pdf)
  • Team 1: Control of Eye Snake Robot Using Data Driven Models
  • Team 2: Optimization Based Teleoperated Control of Eye Robots

February 6

• Project plan presentations
  • Team 3: Robotic Assistant for MRI-Guided Low Back Pain Injection
  • Team 4: Autonomous Puncture Detection in Retinal Vein Cannulation Using Deep Learning Algorithms
  • Team 5: Intelligent Motion Scaling for Teleoperated Robotic Surgery

February 11

• Project plan presentations
  • Team 6: 3D Real-time FBG-based Stylet Shape Sensing
  • Team 7: Deformation Suturing Simulation in AMBF
  • Team 8: Multilateral Teleoperation based Haptic Training System for the dVRK

February 13

• Project plan presentations
  • Team 9: Automating Robotic Surgical Suturing using RL & IL
  • Team 10: Eye Motion Compensation in Robotic Subretinal Injections
  • Team 11: Eye Snake Localization Using Vision

February 18

• Project plan presentations
  • Team 12: Video-based methods for surgeon’s pose analysis in MIS
  • Team 13: Simulation Assisted Navigation for Skull Surgery
  • Team 14: Transsphenoidal surgical simulator

February 20

• Project plan presentations
  • Team 16: Realistic 3D pelvic phantoms and a photoacoustic/ultrasound imaging platform
  • Team 17: dVRK Instrument Segmentation and Pose Estimation through High-Resolution Endoscope
  • Team 18: Advanced ultrasound technologies for prostate cancer: Motion tracking using sparse photoacoustic signals

February 25

• Project plan presentations
  • Team 19: Spatial recognition and synthetic aperture focusing in real-time, non-contact ultrasound imaging
  • Team 20: Diffusion-based Vertebra Reconstruction
  • Team 21: Digital Twin Representation-based Surgical Phase Recognition

February 27

• IMPORTANT: Project plan report due at 1:30pm
• Project plan presentations
  • Team 22: Natural Language Interface for Surgical Robotic System
  • Team 23: Vision-based Soft Tissue Modeling for Digital Twin-based Surgical Robotics
  • Team 24: DDS middleware for medical robotics

March 4

• Project plan presentations
  • Team 25: Supervised Autonomous Robotic Renal Tumor Surgery (SARRTS)
• Background reading presentations (2025_background_reading_presentations_rubric.pdf)
  • Team 11 (2p): Eye Snake Localization Using Vision
  • Team 12 (2p): Video-based methods for surgeon’s pose analysis in MIS

March 6

• Background reading presentations
  • Team 13 (3p): Simulation Assisted Navigation for Skull Surgery
  • Team 6 (3p): 3D Real-time FBG-based Stylet Shape Sensing
  • Team 19 (3p): Spatial recognition and synthetic aperture focusing in real-time, non-contact

March 11

• Background reading presentations
  • Team 8 (3p): Multilateral Teleoperation based Haptic Training System for the dVRK
  • Team 3 (3p): Robotic Assistant for MRI-Guided Low Back Pain Injection
  • Team 10 (2p): Eye Motion Compensation in Robotic Subretinal Injections
  • Team 2 (2p): Optimization Based Teleoperated Control of Eye Robots

March 13

• Background reading presentations
  • Team 5 (2p): Intelligent Motion Scaling for Teleoperated Robotic Surgery
  • Team 7 (2p): Deformation Suturing Simulation in AMBF
  • Team 9 (2p): Automating Robotic Surgical Suturing using RL & IL
  • Team 4 (2p): Autonomous Puncture Detection in Retinal Vein Cannulation Using Deep Learning Algorithms
  • Team 1 (2p): Control of Eye Snake Robot Using Data Driven Models

March 18 - Spring break

March 20 - Spring break

March 25

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 25: Supervised Autonomous Robotic Renal Tumor Surgery (SARRTS)
  • Team 24: DDS middleware for medical robotics

March 27

• IMPORTANT: Background reading report due at 1:30pm
• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 23: Vision-based Soft Tissue Modeling for Digital Twin-based Surgical Robotics
  • Team 22: Natural Language Interface for Surgical Robotic System
  • Team 21: Digital Twin Representation-based Surgical Phase Recognition

April 1

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 20: Diffusion-based Vertebra Reconstruction
  • Team 19: Spatial recognition and synthetic aperture focusing in real-time, non-contact
  • Team 18: Advanced ultrasound technologies for prostate cancer: Motion tracking using sparse photoacoustic signals

April 3

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 17: dVRK Instrument Segmentation and Pose Estimation through High-Resolution Endoscope
  • Team 16: Realistic 3D pelvic phantoms and a photoacoustic/ultrasound imaging platform
  • Team 14: Transsphenoidal surgical simulator

April 8

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 13: Simulation Assisted Navigation for Skull Surgery
  • Team 12: Video-based methods for surgeon’s pose analysis in MIS
  • Team 11: Eye Snake Localization Using Vision

April 10

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 10: Eye Motion Compensation in Robotic Subretinal Injections
  • Team 9: Automating Robotic Surgical Suturing using RL & IL
  • Team 8: Multilateral Teleoperation based Haptic Training System for the dVRK

April 15

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 7: Deformation Suturing Simulation in AMBF
  • Team 6: 3D Real-time FBG-based Stylet Shape Sensing
  • Team 5: Intelligent Motion Scaling for Teleoperated Robotic Surgery
  • Team 4: Autonomous Puncture Detection in Retinal Vein Cannulation Using Deep Learning Algorithms

April 17

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 3: Robotic Assistant for MRI-Guided Low Back Pain Injection
  • Team 2: Optimization Based Teleoperated Control of Eye Robots
  • Team 1: Control of Eye Snake Robot Using Data Driven Models

April 22

• Background reading presentations
  • Team 20 (2p): Diffusion-based Vertebra Reconstruction
  • Team 23 (1p): Vision-based Soft Tissue Modeling for Digital Twin-based Surgical Robotics
  • Team 16 (1p): Realistic 3D pelvic phantoms and a photoacoustic/ultrasound imaging platform
  • Team 24 (1p): DDS middleware for medical robotics
  • Team 22 (1p): Natural Language Interface for Surgical Robotic System

April 24 - Last day of classes

• Background reading presentations
  • Team 18 (1p): Advanced ultrasound technologies for prostate cancer: Motion tracking using sparse photoacoustic signals
  • Team 14 (1p): Transsphenoidal surgical simulator
  • Team 17 (1p): dVRK Instrument Segmentation and Pose Estimation through High-Resolution Endoscope
  • Team 21 (2p): Digital Twin Representation-based Surgical Phase Recognition
  • Team 25 (2p): Supervised Autonomous Robotic Renal Tumor Surgery (SARRTS)

May 5 - Final exam

• Final poster/demo session 0900-1200
• **IMPORTANT: Project reports due before 0900 on May 5

The rest will be filled in later