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
  • 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

February 25

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

February 27

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

March 4

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

March 6

• Background reading presentations

March 11

• Background reading presentations

March 13

• Background reading presentations

March 18 - Spring break

March 20 - Spring break

March 25

• Background reading presentations

March 27

• Background reading presentations

April 1

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

April 3

• 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 8

• 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 10

• 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 15: Passivity based Adaptive Human/Robot Interaction for Microsurgery

April 15

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

April 17

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

April 22

• Checkpoint presentations

April 24 - Last day of classes

• Final checkpoint presentations/poster teaser presentations. All groups present.

May 5 - Final exam

• Final poster/demo session 0900-1200
• **IMPORTANT: Project reports due before the poster session (i.e., 0900 on May 5)

The rest will be filled in later