Opening of the Computer Integrated Surgery Laboratory at Univ. at Buffalo (CIS@SUNY-UB)

Collaboration between Dr. Venkat Krovi, Assoc. Professor in the MAE Department at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Dr. Pankaj Singhal, Assoc. Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has led to the inauguration of the Computer Integrated Surgery Laboratory at UB. Located in 201 E Bell Hall on UB’s North Campus, this lab will focus on contemporary issues in the area of surgical robotics, including simulation and training, quantitative skill assessment, and novel device design for medical applications. In the long-run, we hope to tackle such an array of challenging problems from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. Below you will also find a list of our publications that has either been accepted or still under review from our group.The website for the CIS lab is currently under construction. Please stay tuned to this blog for any future updates in this regard!

Journal:

1. Jun, S.-K., Sathia Narayanan, M., Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, Corso, J. J. and Krovi, V., “Evaluation of Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills using Motion Studies”, 2013 Journal of Robotic Surgery (to be published).

Conference: 

09. Kumar, S., Narayanan, M.S., Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, Corso, J.J., and Krovi, V., Product of Tracking Experts for Surgical Tool Visual Tracking, 2013 IEEE/ASME Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Madison WI (submitted for review). 

08. Kumar, S., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Vision-based Decision Support and Safety Systems for Robotic Surgery”, 2013 Medical Cyber Physical Systems (MedCPS), Philadephia, PA. 

07. Abber Eddib, Neha Jain, Sara Hughes, Alexander Eswar, Mehmet Erk, Caroline Michalik, Venkat Krovi, Pankaj Singhal: Influence of Morbid Obesity on Surgical Outcomes In Robotic Assisted Gynecologic Surgery.  Submited to the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 

06. Abber Eddib, Neha Jain, Sara Hughes, Alexander Eswar, Mehmet Erk, Caroline Michalik, Venkat Krovi, Pankaj Singhal: Analysis of the impact of age on the surgical outcomes after robot assisted laparoscopic hysterectomies.  Submitted. 

05. Pankaj Singhal, Wainwright Jaggernauth, Kunle Odunsi, Shashikant Lele, “Clear Cell Carcinoma of the Endometrium:  Pattern of Outcomes and Failures”. Submitted. 

04. Abber Eddib, Neha Jain, Sara Hughes, Alexander Eswar, Mehmet Erk, Caroline Michalik, Venkat Krovi, Pankaj Singhal: An analysis of the Impact of Previous Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Experience on the Learning Curve for Robotic Hysterectomy. The Journal of Robotic Surgery, Feb. 2013 

03. Seungkook Jun, Madusudanan S. Narayanan, Abeer Eddib, Pankaj Singhal, Sudha Garimella  and Venkat Krovi, Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment by Video-Motion Analysis, 5th Hamlyn Symposium 2012, Royal Geographical Society,  London, England, UK  July 2012. [Runner-up Award] 

02. Seungkook Jun, Madusudanan Narayanan, Abeer Eddib, Pankaj Singhal and Venkat Krovi, "Evaluation of Surgical Skills and Level-of-Expertise for Robotic Surgeries", 2012 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS' 12) Workshop, Maryland, USA, Mar 20- 22, 2012. [Paper and Poster] 

01. Seungkook Jun, Madusudanan S. Narayanan, Abeer Eddib, Pankaj Singhaland Venkat Krovi, "Assessment of Surgical Skill Expertisebased on Micro-Motion Analysis", 2012 International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob' 12) Roma, Italy, Jun 24-28, 2012.

Human Motion Capture and Analysis Poster Recieves Runner-Up in ICT Day Workshop

Congratulations to Seungkook Jun, Xiaobo Zhou, Dr. Venkat Krovi, and Dr. Daniel Ramsey for receiving runner-up in the recently held Information and Computing Technology (ICT) Day Workshop by the Department of Computer Science Engineering. The poster, entitled Cyber Physical Systems: Quantitative Sensing of Dynamic Behaviors for Progressive Rehabilitation, was presented by Seungkook Jun. The research team sought to determine the feasibility of using commercially available human motion capturing devices (such as the Microsoft Kinect) as economically-viable tools in motion analysis. This analysis is then applied to the design and implementation of rehabilitative devices, including articulated knee braces.

Related Publications:

[1] S.K. Jun, X. Zhou, D. Ramsey, V. Krovi, "A Comparative Study of Human Motion Capture and Analysis Tools", In International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR 2013), Seattle WA, June 24 -26 2013. (submitted for review)

[2] S.K. Jun, X. Zhou, D. Ramsey, V. Krovi, "Kineto-static Design-Refinement of Articulated Knee Braces", In ASME IDETC/ CIE 2013, Portland Oregon, August 4-7 2013. (submitted for review)

[3] Zhou, X, Tang, C.-P., and Krovi, V., “Analysis Framework for Cooperating Mobile Cable Robots,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '12), Minneapolis, MN, May 14-18 2012.

[4] Lee, L.-F., Zhou, X., Krovi, V., “Quantitative Performance Analysis of Haptic Devices with Parallelogram Subsystems”, In ASME IDETC/ CIE 2011, DETC 2011-47725, Washington, DC, August 28-31, 2011.

[5] Narayanan, M.S., Chakravarty, S., Shah, H.L., and Krovi, V., "Kinematic-Static- and Workspace Analysis of a 6- P-U-S Parallel Manipulator", In ASME IDETC/CIE 2010 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 15-18, 2010.

Dr. Krovi and his Crew Awarded Bruce Holm Catalyst Research Fund

The research grant with Dr. Krovi as the principal investigator (PI) has been awarded with the Bruce Holm Catalyst Research Fund. The Co-PIs on this project include our research collaborators-- Dr. Pankaj Singhal, Asst. Prof in Gyn/Onc Dept at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Dr. Jason J Corso, Asst. Prof in the Dept. of Computer Science Eng. The proposal submitted by Dr.Krovi and his crew was one among the five research groups selected to receive this fund from UB (Bruce Holm Catalyst Fund). The financial support is intended to move promising technologies, developed within engineering and scientific research labs, closer to the market for possible commercialization. The proposal that was submitted by Dr. Krovi & Co. is based on our current progress on surgical skill assessment. In particular, this work proposes to focus on re-purposing video-based micro-motion analysis in order to improve training for doctors performing robotic surgeries, as well as to serve as a tool in evaluating proficiency. We in ARMLAB congratulate Dr.Krovi and his team for their commendable efforts.

Please see the following links for more information:

http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2013/02/05/ub-investing-in-multiple-research.html?page=all

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2013/02/004.html

Related Publications:

[C04]

Kumar, S., Narayanan, M.S., Misra, S., Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, Corso, J., and Krovi, V., “ Vision based Decision-Support and Safety Systems for Robotic Surgery”, 2013 Medical Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop (MedCPS), Philadelphia, PA, Apr 8, 2013.

[PDF]

[C03]

Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment by Video-Motion Analysis”, 2012 5th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, 2012, London, UK, Jun 30-Jul 2. [BIB | RIS]

[PDF]

[C02]

Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment based on Automated Video-Analysis Motion Studies”, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Roma, Italy, Jun 24-28, 2012. [BIB | RIS]

[PDF]

[C01]

Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Evaluation of Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills using Motion Studies”, 2012 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'12) Workshop, College Park, MD, March 20-22, 2012. [BIB | RIS]

Runner Up Paper Award in 2012 Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics

Our recent progress in the field of surgical robotics that discusses the micro-motion-analysis based skill assessment techniques was presented at the 2012 IEEE Bio-robotics and Bio-mechatronics Conference as well as at 2012 Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics (HSMR). Dr.Krovi attended both the conferences in Italy and London respectively. The audience who attended both the presentations were much appreciative of our work and we wish to thank everyone of them for their valuable questions/ feedback. 

Specifically, the paper titled "Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment by Video-Motion Analysis" that was presented at HSMR also bagged the runner-up paper-poster award at the conference. Dr.Krovi who presented the paper at the symposium in Imperial College at London, UK personally received the award from Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham and Professor Guang-Zhong Yan. We, from ARMLAB, would like to congratulate all the contributors of this work and wish all the best to achieve further success in their respective endeavors.

Related Publications:
Journal

[J01] Jun, S.-K., Sathia Narayanan, M., Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, Corso, J. J. and Krovi, V., “Evaluation of Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills using Motion Studies”, 2013 Journal of Robotic Surgery. 

Conferences

[C06] Kumar, S., Sathia Narayanan, M., Singhal, P, MD, Corso, J. J. and Krovi, V., “Product-of-Tracking-Experts for Surgical Tool Visual Tracking”, 2013 IEEE Conference on Auomation Science and Engineering, Madison, WI (submitted for review).

[C05] Kumar, S., Sathia Narayanan, M., Singhal, P, MD, Corso, J. J. and Krovi, V., “Surgical Tool Attributes for Intraoperative Semantic Feedback”, 2013 Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Information Society, Tokyo, Japan (submitted for review).

[C04]Kumar, S., Narayanan, M.S., Misra, S., Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, Corso, J., and Krovi, V., “ Vision based Decision-Support and Safety Systems for Robotic Surgery”, 2013 Medical Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop (MedCPS), Philadelphia, PA, Apr 8, 2013.
[C03]Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment by Video-Motion Analysis”, 2012 5th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, 2012, London, UK, Jun 30-Jul 2. [BIB | RIS]  [PDF]
[C02]Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment based on Automated Video-Analysis Motion Studies”, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Roma, Italy, Jun 24-28, 2012. [BIB | RIS]  [PDF]
[C01]Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Evaluation of Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills using Motion Studies”, 2012 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'12) Workshop, College Park, MD, March 20-22, 2012. [BIB | RIS] [PDF]

Poster
[P01]Seung-kook Jun, "Robotic Surgical Skill Assessment using Therbligs-based Motion Studies", 2012 MAE Dept. Graduate Student Research Poster Competition [PDF]

ARMies at 2012 MAE GSA Research Symposium

Ahead of a busy conference period, ARMLAB members presented their research posters at this year's 2012 MAE GSA Research Symposium. Xiaobo was presenting his current developments with cooperative cable robots while Seung-kook (a.k.a. SK) presented his work on robotic surgical skill assessment based on motion analysis methods.

This work was selected for presentation at 2012 IEEE BioROB conference held at Roma, Italy in June this year. Xiaobo will in turn present his work at 2012 ICRA (St. Paul, MN). Having received words of appreciation and encouragement from the department faculties at the research poster symposium, we wish them all the best for their presentation at the respective conferences.

Related Publications

[1] Zhou, X, Tang, C.-P., and Krovi, V., “Analysis Framework for Cooperating Mobile Cable Robots,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '12), Minneapolis, MN, May 14-18 2012. [BIB | RIS ]

[2] Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment based on Automated Video-Analysis Motion Studies”, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Jun 24-28, 2012, Roma, Italy. [BIB | RIS]

[3] Jun, S.-K., Narayanan, M.S., Eddib, A., MD, Garimella, S., MD, Singhal, P, MD, and Krovi, V., “Evaluation of Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills using Motion Studies”, 2012 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'12) Workshop, March 20-22, 2012, College Park, MD. [BIB | RIS]