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 see the projects for 2024

List of the project ideas and each individual set of slides for 2024

* January 23

• Introduction and organization
• Non-disclosure agreement
• Presentation of project ideas
  • Dr. Manish Sahu: 3, 39
  • Dr. Peter Kazanzides: 4
  • Benjamin Killeen: 15, 16
  • Han Zhang: 17
  • Dr. Adnan Munawar: 34, 36
  • Sue Min (Jasmine) Cho: 9, 10
  • Dr. Alejandro Martin-Gomez: 8

* January 25

• Presentation of project ideas
  • Jesse Haworth: 1
  • Dr. Deepa Galaiya: 12, 13, 14
  • Dr. Paul Sponseller: 21
  • Dr. Iulian Iordachita: 46
  • Sue Min (Jasmine) Cho: 22
  • Juan Barragan: 5, 6
  • Benjamin Killeen: 18, 19
  • Lydia Al-Zogbi, Yanzhou Wang: 41
  • Dr. Ahmed Ghazi: 2
  • Dr. Peter Kazanzides: 40

* January 30

• Presentation of project ideas
  • Dr. Peter Kazanzides: 25
  • Dr. Ugur Tumerdem: 26, 27
  • Can Kocabalkanli: 23
  • Mojtaba Esfandiari: 47
  • Dr. Adnan Munawar: 35, 37
  • Dr. Carmen Kut: 38
  • Ananya Tandri: 28, 29
  • Dr. Jeeun Kang: 30
  • Dimitri Lezcano: 24
  • Dr. Craig Jones: 7

* February 1

• Writing center announcement
• Presentation of project ideas
  • Dr. Onder Erin: 33
  • Hyunwoo Song: 31, 45
  • Ruixing Liang: 48

* February 6

• Presentation of project ideas
  • Dr. Vinciya Pandian: 42, 43, 44
  • Jan Mangulabnan: 49, 50
  • Dr. Roger Soberanis: 51, 52
• Project plan presentations
  • Team 2: Non-invasive photoacoustic circulating tumor cell detection and therapy

* February 8

• Project plan presentations
  • Team 3: Measuring Variability of Pelvic Standard Views in Virtual Reality
  • Team 1: Performance Metrics and Skills Analysis for Skull-Base Surgery
  • Team 5: A cannula marker body for tracker-free surgical navigation during Kirschner wire placement

* February 13

• Presentation of project idea
  • Dr. Anuruddha Bhattacharjee: 53
• Project plan presentations
  • Team 6: Augmented reality-enhanced surgical microscopes for orthopedic spinal procedures
  • Team 7: Design of a Closed-Loop Bevel-Tip Needle Steering System Using Electromagnetic Tracking for Prostate Biopsies
  • Team 4: Robotic Assistant for MRI-Guided Low Back Pain Injections

* February 15

• Project plan presentations
  • Team 8: Surgical Robotics Environment for NVIDIA Isaac Sim
  • Team 9: Deep learning-based optimization of novel transformable transrectal ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging
  • Team 10: Cross-Platform Signed Distance Field Toolkit

* February 20

• Project plan presentations
  • Team 11: Bringing View-invariant X-ray Image Analysis into the Operating Room
  • Team 12: Digital playground for developing medical robotics environments
  • Team 13: Admittance Switching for Virtual Fixtures in Microsurgery

* February 22

• IMPORTANT: Project plan report due at 11:59pm
• Project plan presentations
  • Team 14: Learning Based Sensorless Force Estimation for Haptic Feedback on the dVRK
  • Team 15: Design of an Automated Robotic Patient Tracheostomy Suctioning System
  • Team 16: A reinforcement learning approach to robotic suturing

* February 27

• Guest lecture on medical device development and project management (Prof. Kazanzides)
  • MSKCC System Requirements
  • Development Process
• Project plan presentations
  • Team 17: Enabling High Precision Post-Operative Radiation Therapy (PORT) Delivery for Skull Based Cancers
  • Team 19: An open source laparoscopic simulator

* February 29

• Project plan presentations
  • Team 20: Deep Learning for the Auto-Labelling of Prostate Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (mpMRI) Scans
  • Team 11: Bringing View-invariant X-ray Image Analysis into the Operating Room
  • Team 21: Exploration of Update Methods for Signed Distance Field

* March 05

• Project plan presentations
  • Team 18: Design and Control of Miniature Magnetic Surgical Tools
• Background reading presentations
  • Team 4: Robotic Assistant for MRI-Guided Low Back Pain Injections
  • Team 14: Learning Based Sensorless Force Estimation for Haptic Feedback on the dVRK

* March 07

• Background reading presentations
  • Team 7: Design of a Closed-Loop Bevel-Tip Needle Steering System Using Electromagnetic Tracking for Prostate Biopsies
  • Team 13: Admittance Switching for Virtual Fixtures in Microsurgery
  • Team 1: Performance Metrics and Skills Analysis for Skull-Base Surgery

* March 12

• Background reading presentations
  • Team 9: Deep learning-based optimization of novel transformable transrectal ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging
  • Team 6: Augmented reality-enhanced surgical microscopes for orthopedic spinal procedures
  • Team 21: Exploration of Update Methods for Signed Distance Field

* March 14

• Background reading presentations
  • Team 15: Design of an Automated Robotic Patient Tracheostomy Suctioning System
  • Team 3: Measuring Variability of Pelvic Standard Views in Virtual Reality
  • Team 20: Deep Learning for the Auto-Labelling of Prostate Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (mpMRI) Scans
  • Team 11: Bringing View-invariant X-ray Image Analysis into the Operating Room

* March 17

• IMPORTANT: Background reading report due at 11:59pm

* March 19 - Spring break

* March 21 - Spring break

* March 26

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 21: Exploration of Update Methods for Signed Distance Field
  • Team 9: Deep learning-based optimization of novel transformable transrectal ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging

* March 28

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 19: An open source laparoscopic simulator
  • Team 2: Non-invasive photoacoustic circulating tumor cell detection and therapy
  • Team 12: Digital playground for developing medical robotics environments

* April 02

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 16: A reinforcement learning approach to robotic suturing
  • Team 18: Design and Control of Miniature Magnetic Surgical Tools
  • Team 17: Enabling High Precision Post-Operative Radiation Therapy (PORT) Delivery for Skull Based Cancers

* April 04

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 11: Bringing View-invariant X-ray Image Analysis into the Operating Room
  • Team 8: Surgical Robotics Environment for NVIDIA Isaac Sim
  • Team 7: Design of a Closed-Loop Bevel-Tip Needle Steering System Using Electromagnetic Tracking for Prostate Biopsies

* April 09

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 15: Design of an Automated Robotic Patient Tracheostomy Suctioning System
  • Team 14: Learning Based Sensorless Force Estimation for Haptic Feedback on the dVRK
  • Team 6: Augmented reality-enhanced surgical microscopes for orthopedic spinal procedures

* April 11

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 13: Admittance Switching for Virtual Fixtures in Microsurgery
  • Team 5: A cannula marker body for tracker-free surgical navigation during Kirschner wire placement
  • Team 3: Measuring Variability of Pelvic Standard Views in Virtual Reality

* April 16

• Checkpoint presentations
  • Team 20: Deep Learning for the Auto-Labelling of Prostate Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (mpMRI) Scans
  • Team 4: Robotic Assistant for MRI-Guided Low Back Pain Injections
  • Team 1: Performance Metrics and Skills Analysis for Skull-Base Surgery

* April 18

• Background reading presentations
  • Team 19: An open source laparoscopic simulator
  • Team 18: Design and Control of Miniature Magnetic Surgical Tools
  • Team 17: Enabling High Precision Post-Operative Radiation Therapy (PORT) Delivery for Skull Based Cancers
  • Team 8: Surgical Robotics Environment for NVIDIA Isaac Sim

* April 23

• Background reading presentations
  • Team 5: A cannula marker body for tracker-free surgical navigation during Kirschner wire placement
  • Team 16: A reinforcement learning approach to robotic suturing
  • Team 12: Digital playground for developing medical robotics environments
  • Team 2: Non-invasive photoacoustic circulating tumor cell detection and therapy

* April 25 – Last day of classs

• Teaser presentations
  • 2 minutes for each team
  • Slides due by April 23rd 11:59 PM (send to Jasmine: scho72@jhu.edu)
  • Content: Project goals, significance, technical accomplishment, status and future plans

* April 28 (Sunday)

• IMPORTANT: Final reports due 5 PM (hard deadline)
• Note that this is the day before the reading period

* May 1 (Wednesday, WSE Design Day)

• Mentors' reports are due at 1 PM
• Final poster/demo session