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.

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:

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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.

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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]

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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]

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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]

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]

2012 Haptics Workshop: Come Explore the Touchy-Feely Side of Robotics

Here we are again at the 7th year of Tech Savvy- "Doing Well by Doing Good"-- the annual workshop for middle school and high school girls that took place in University at Buffalo. There were over 500 girls from many different local high schools with a "Haptics: Come Explore the Touchy-Feely Side of Robotics" Workshop from the ARMLAB once again!!!

In the hour-long workshop Dr. Krovi, Shefalika Prasad (local high school student), Ziyun Jo Zhou (REU student), Light Le and Justin Storms (undergraduates at UB) presented fundamental concepts and basics of robotics/ haptics outlining the application needs, engineering challenges and highlighting the bright future of robotics/haptics -- before the FUN and DEMONSTRATIONS began!!

One of the major highlights of this year was of course the guest speaker, Shefalika who is actually the first prize recipient at Tech Wars NCCC 2012 competition in the autonomous robot category for concept-design and fabrication of a automated robotic parking gate system. She talked about her winning project design and her parking gate system was on display which was well received by the girls who attended the workshop. Jo and Light presented their project on surgical haptic simulations that they are currently pursuing in ARMLAB and led way to interactive hands-on sessions.

The girls were very excited to try out the attractive demo applications -- needle biopsy simulator, ear surgery simulator as well as Cre8 (freeform CAD application). Working with cutting edge haptic and robotics applications, proved to be a great learning opportunity to these students. This workshop also served to provide valuable information to many others who were actually wanting to get their hands on pursuing robotics.

We thank AAUW for their continuing support. More details about the workshop and the presentations can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/techsavvyroboticsworkshop/.

Tech Savvy 2010 Robotics Workshop

On March 13, 2010, working together with AAUW Buffalo Branch, The Automation, Robotics, & Mechatronics Laboratory hosted a Robotics Workshop for "Tech Savvy 5: Tapping into our Technological Future" for girls in grades 9 - 12 in the Western New York region on March 13, 2010. Approximate 36 students (in 3 sessions) attended our workshop entitled "Haptics: The Touchy-Feely Side of Robotics" this year (download PPT slides: here).

The workshop, consisting of presentations followed by 3 hands-on demos, allowing the students to explore use of different haptics devices, expose them to the multiple applications and even program sample motions of a mobile robot (a first programming experience for many of them).

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Video highlights:




FOR MORE INFORMATION
ARMLAB Website: The Automation Mechatronics and Robotics Laboratory: ARMLAB

In the news: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/techsavvy/2010/

Gifted Math Program March Symposium Highlights

As part of our ongoing outreach activities, Dr. Krovi presented "Mechanisms & Robots: Geometry in Motion" (in 2 sessions) to approximately 50 students of outstanding mathematics ability from 7-12 grades in the Western New York region, on March 10, 2010.

In this presentation (download the presentation: here), Dr. Krovi shows how mathematics knowledge can be useful to solve problems in mechanisms and robotics, and most importantly, how can one get started. The following video contains highlights of the program and presentation.


For more info about Gifted Math Program: Here