Day 1
February 27
Venue: Oude Vismijn
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6 CPD points
08:30 - 10:30 | Session 1: Surgical AI - 101
Chair: Andrew Gumbs & Niki Rashidian
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What is surgical AI? - Oz Meireles
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The 2025 status update of intraoperative applications - Amin Madani
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Predicting patient complications and outcomes - Felix Nickel
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The robot knows it all - do's & don'ts of robotics signal processing - Filippo Filicori
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Data is the new oil: why multicentricity, ontology and annotation quality matter - Jennifer Eckhoff
10:30- 11:30 | Break
11:30 - 13:00 | Session 2: Surgical Scene Understanding
Chairs: Ivo Broeders & Pieter De Backer
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The issue is the tissue - Semantic segmentation - Fiona Kolbinger
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Timing is everything - Phase recognition - Marco Mezzina
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Pushing the role of fluoresence through AI - Ronan Cahill
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Augmenting our human visual bandwidth - Hyperspectral imaging - Daniel Elson
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 | Session 3: Going beyond vision only
Chair: Isabelle Van Herzeele & Federica Ferraguti
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Model performance tracking & the missing pieces in computer vision - Dan Donoho
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The guide to capturing data in your OR - Ivo Broeders
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Surgical soft-tissue navigation in the age of deep learning - Micha Pfeiffer
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Vision Language Models - Wouter Bogaert
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Ultrasound & robotic surgery - is AI the missing connector? - Yuan Bi
15:30 - 16:00 | Break
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Poster session and industry exhibit
16:00 - 17:30 | Session 4: Surgical robotics as a key platform for advancements in digital surgery
Chairs: Filippo Filicori & Sharona Ross
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Different surgical robots and their AI applications - Yoav Mintz
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Why do we need AI for autonomous surgical robotics - Mahdi Azizian
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Surgical AI: Who cares if we can't bring it to the market? - Bryn Davies
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Where is the industry going with AI and soft tissue robotics - Steve Bell
20:00 | Faculty dinner @ Pillows Hotel
