Gregory D. Hager - CMIC/WEISS joint seminar series

Gregory D. Hager, Mandell Bellmore Professor of Computer Science, Director, Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Johns Hopkins University

Title: Computer Vision for Surgery

Abstract:

Over the past decade, interventional medicine has experienced a slow but consistent evolution toward the increasing use and sophistication of technology in the operating room. A side-effect of these changes is an unprecedented opportunity to transparently capture data on procedures as they are performed. For example, the da Vinci Surgical robot now performs over one million procedures per year while capturing stereo video and tool movement – effectively a complete record of a surgical procedure. At scale, millions of such data points create new opportunities to apply a wealth of data-driven learning techniques to understand and improve surgery. In this talk, I’ll review some highlights of the past decade of work exploiting recorded surgical data for assessment of human performance, and I’ll highlight some key advances and opportunities for creating methods that augment the performance of the surgeon during the procedure. I’ll close with some thoughts about how recent advances in simulation and learning present the possibility of automating some elements of interventional medicine in the not too distant future.

Bio: Greg Hager is the Mandell Bellmore Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and Founding Director of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. Professor Hager’s research interests include computer vision, vision-based and collaborative robotics, time-series analysis of image data, and applications of image analysis and robotics in medicine and in manufacturing. He is a member of the CISE Advisory Committee, the governing board of the International Federation of Robotics Research  and former member of the Board of the Directors of the Computing Research Association. He previously served as Chair of the Computing Community Consortium. In 2014, he was awarded a Hans Fischer Fellowship in the Institute of Advanced Study of the Technical University and in 2017 was named a TUM Ambassador.  Professor Hager has served on the editorial boards of IEEE TRO, IEEE PAMI, and IJCV and ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare. He is a fellow of the ACM and IEEE for his contributions to Vision-Based Robotics and a Fellow of AAAS, the MICCAI Society and of AIMBE for his contributions to imaging and his work on the analysis of surgical technical skill. Professor Hager is a co-founder of Clear Guide Medical and Ready Robotics.