QiKou：The Role of AI for Next-generation Robotic Surgery
Reporter：QiKou
Abstract：With advancements in medicine and information technologies, the operating room has undergone tremendous transformations evolving into a highly complicated environment. These achievements furthers innovate the surgery procedure and have great promise to enhance the patient's safety. Within the new generation of operating theatre, the computer-assisted system plays an important role to provide surgeons with reliable contextual support. In this talk, I will present a series of deep learning methods towards interdisciplinary researches at artificial intelligence for surgical robotic perception, for automated surgical workflow analysis, instrument presence detection, surgical tool segmentation, surgical scene perception, etc. The proposed methods cover a wide range of deep learning topics including design of network architectures, novel learning strategies such as attention mechanism, multi-task learning, transfer learning, adversarial training, etc. The challenges, up-to-date progresses and promising future directions of AI-powered context-aware operating theaters will also be discussed.
