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DAY 1

February 26

Venue: Oude Vismijn

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Two parallel program channels will take place, allowing attendees to switch between sessions freely.
TRACK 1: SURGICAL AI
Session 1A: Setting the stage
  • What is surgical AI in 2026

  • Preoperative applications

  • Real-time intra-operative applications

  • Post-operative applications

TRACK 2: TELESURGERY
Session 1B: Setting the stage
  • What is telesurgery and what are the bottlenecks

  • Current status of telesurgery

  • Different robotic systems offering telesurgery

  • Cost-cutting aspects of telesurgery

BREAK
Session 2A: Perception on surgical AI
  • Computer vision surgical scene understanding

  • Speech in the OR

  • Multimodal computer vision

Session 2B: Challenges for telesurgery
  • Network reliability and the role of 6G

  • Latency management and high resolution imaging

  • The role of AI in telesurgery

LUNCH
Session 3A: Generative surgical AI
  • VLMs

  • Syntethic data generation

  • Simulation 

  • Digital twins

Session 3B: Ethical & regulatory challenges
  • Obtaining a truthful informed consent

  • Data security

  • Liability and cross-border licensure

  • Reimbursement policies

BREAK
Session 4A: Agentic Surgical AI
  • What is agentic AI in surgery?

  • Agent for EHR retrieval

  • Agents for video analysis

  • How to integrate all agents in real-time

Session 4B: Surgical training & teaching in the era of AI & telesurgery
  • How can AI & telesurgery accelerate skill aquisition?

  • Can we trust an AI teacher?

  • Role of vision language models in surgical teaching

  • Latency and teaching - how far can we go?

Please note that the program is subject to change as we approach the event.

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Surgical AI & Telesurgery Days

February 26 - 28, 2026

​Ghent, Belgium

© 2025 by Orsi Academy

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