Abstract This talk will give an overview of the recently established Bioengineering Initiative in the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. The mission of the Bioengineering[…]

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Abstract While perception and modelling of static environments became a well-research problem, independent motions in the scene are still difficult to acquire and represent for robotic tasks. The challenges range from the required significantly higher[…]

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Abstract Human heavily relies on visual feedback from eyes to control his/her motion.  To develop a robotic vision system that functions like human eyes, one of the crucial and difficult problems is how to effectively[…]

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Abstract:   Image guided interventions are increasingly gaining interest from surgical and radiological disciplines. In addition to radiological imaging technologies, radionuclear imaging and optical imaging have the potential to visualize molecular features of disease. To[…]

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Abstract: The growing use of image-guided minimally-invasive surgical procedures is confronting clinicians and surgical staff to new radiation exposure risks from X-ray imaging devices. Furthermore, the current surgical practice of wearing a single dosimeter at[…]

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Abstract We are entering an era where people will interact with smart machines to enhance the physical aspects of their lives, just as smart mobile devices have revolutionized how we access and use information. Robots[…]

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Abstract The humanoid robot DURUS was unveiled to the public in the midst of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). While the main competition took place in the stadium, DURUS took part in the Robot Endurance[…]

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Speaker Bio Doctor Carla Pugh is currently Vice-Chair of Education and Patient Safety in the Department of Surgery at University Wisconsin, Madison. She is also Director of UW-Health’s Inter-Professional Simulation Program. Her clinical area of[…]

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