WEISS - Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences

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So excited to be co-leading this new EPSRC Research and Partnerships Hub from Cavendish Laboratory - Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge with Dan Stoyanov from WEISS - Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences and Daniel Elson from Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery. We'll be joined by an amazing group of collaborators across the 3 centres and beyond to make the hub a new focus for optical and acoustic imaging in the UK and globally, including Rebecca Fitzgerald, Massimiliano di Pietro and Danielle Harper in Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge. Reach out if you're interested to learn more and get involved in the hub activities. More information coming early in 2025!

I had the pleasure of co-organizing this year’s Peter Kirstein Lecture at UCL (more info: https://lnkd.in/exPdwgry), where we welcomed the inspirational Prof. Hugh Herr and were honoured to have the distinguished Prof. Peter Kirstein family. It was a privilege to come together and celebrate Prof. Peter Kirstein’s legacy alongside his family and the UCL Computer Science community. The event also featured hands-on demos by our team (Anjana Wijekoon, Zhehua Mao, Laurent Mennillo, Ryman Hashem, Vanni Consumi, Chuang Lu) from the #SurgicalRobotVision group, WEISS - Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, showcasing groundbreaking advancements in surgical soft robotics and surgical AI. A huge thank you to my fellow co-organizers—Vajeeha Farooq, Amid Ayobi, He WANG, Steve Hailes, Dr Victoria Austin, and Rui Loureiro—for making this event such a success. #PeterKirsteinLecture2024 #HughHerr #Innovation #Biomechatronics #SurgicalRobotics #surgicalAI #ArtificialIntelligence

We were delighted to have Professor Hugh Herr join us to present the Peter Kirstein Lecture 2024 this year. We’re excited to share highlights from the lecture, where Professor Herr (MIT), a leader in biomechatronics, talked about his personal journey which led to bionics research and delved into groundbreaking advances in bionic limbs. From tissue-synthetic interfaces to cutting-edge prosthetics, discover how his work is revolutionising mobility for many with limb differences. The day started with a private tour and demonstrations of our robotics, medical robotics and our Global Disability Innovation Hub for Hugh and guests from Peter Kirstein's family. Later, guests were treated to Hugh's captivating lecture: On the Design of Bionic Limbs: The Science of Tissue-Synthetic Interface. Hugh spoke of his journey as an avid mountain climber to working in pioneering bionics research. Read highlights of the private tour and demos, lecture and fireside chat hosted by UCL experts in assistive technology and medical robotics. 🔗 Watch the lecture (password protected) and read more: https://lnkd.in/e5C_zXCF WEISS - Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences UCL Robotics Institute Dimitrios Kanoulas, Dr Victoria Austin, Sophia Bano, He WANG, Amid Ayobi #Bionics #PeterKirstein #AssistiveTech #robotics #MedicalRobotics

Excited to share our contributions to #MICCAI2024! We're presenting 4 main conference papers this year, including 2 early acceptances and 1 invited oral presentation in the fields of surgical data science and clinical large vision-language models. Huge thanks to our collaborators! Looking forward to engaging discussions in #Marrakesh! 🇲🇦 ⭐ PitVQA: Image-grounded Text Embedding LLM for Visual Question Answering in Pituitary Surgery Oral presentation at Crystal Room (Dual Track Hall), Wednesday, October 8, 16:30 to 18:00 Poster at W-PM-208 , Wednesday, Oct 9, 15:00 to 16:30 🔗 Paper: https://lnkd.in/e7dxkPU3 🔗 Dataset: https://lnkd.in/eQmWrbsx 🔗 Code: https://lnkd.in/enSxmRru ⭐ EndoDAC: Efficient Adapting Foundation Model for Self-Supervised Depth Estimation from Any Endoscopic Camera Poster at T-PM-076, Session 4, Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 15:00 to 16:30 🔗 Paper: https://lnkd.in/e5TFXhrm 🔗 Code: https://lnkd.in/euDRzppg ⭐ Endo-4DGS: Endoscopic Monocular Scene Reconstruction with 4D Gaussian Splatting Poster at T-PM-074, Session 4, Tuesday, October 8, 15:00 to 16:30 🔗 Paper: https://lnkd.in/ejm2cMRH 🔗 Code: https://lnkd.in/e_2N3tdp ⭐ EndoUIC: Promptable Diffusion Transformer for Unified Illumination Correction in Capsule Endoscopy Poster at T-AM-091, Session 3, Tuesday, October 8, 10:30 to 11:30 🔗 Paper: https://lnkd.in/ed6-wVs8 🔗 Code: https://lnkd.in/e-YrUckw MICCAI Society #MICCAI #SurgicalDataScience #ClinicalLLM #LLM #FoundationModels

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be presenting our work, Harnessing Symmetry Breaking in Soft Robotics: A Novel Approach for Underactuated Fingers, at IROS 2024 this year! It’s been a fantastic collaboration with Toby Howison, Agostino Stilli, Dan Stoyanov, Peter Xu and Fumiya Iida. If you’re attending, I’d love to catch up—whether we’ve worked together before or haven’t yet. Looking forward! #IROS2024 #SoftRobotics #UnderactuatedSystems #ResearchInnovation #EmbodiedIntelligence #OxfordScience

Is this the first journal publication of the UCL #HawkesInstitute? Shaheer U. Saeed has developed a self-play algorithm, asking two RL agents playing 🎮🎮 a game of competing for ROI-containing image patches, until full segmentation is done. ♨️ off the IEEE TPAMI press! https://lnkd.in/ey6v24rx UCL Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC) WEISS - Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences João Ramalhinho Iani Gayo Nina Montaña Brown Ester Bonmati Steve Pereira Dean Barratt Matt Clarkson

📣 The new OASIS Hub "will create new imaging capabilities in diagnostic and surgical imaging using light and sound, including low-cost, portable devices to detect the early signs of cancer by listening for soundwaves using optical tools": https://lnkd.in/e_-RZtQ8

There's still time to apply for the IHE Impact Fellowship 2024/25. Kicking off in November, the Impact Fellowship will provide you with the skills and connections to make an impact in the world. From policymaking to podcasting, you'll gain exposure to a range of impact and engagement topics – and the opportunity to put these into practice! "It helped me question my role (and the role of researchers) in society and has urged me to engage with as many audiences as possible to bring our solutions to real-world problems and narratives”. DL: 11 October https://lnkd.in/e8AA2Uuk

A new hand-held scanner developed by UCL Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering researchers, Prof Paul Beard and Dr Nam Huynh, can generate highly detailed 3D photoacoustic images in just seconds, which could show the first signs of diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis or cancer. Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/eD8fuCqV Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eT5b3Rmi #UCLResearch #MedicalImaging #UCLEngineering