ABSTRACT
Robots have been widely used to help surgeons in various surgical procedures. Existing surgical robots are controlled by surgeons via interfaces. Human control may cause concerns like surgeon-dependent performance/quality, safety risk due to fatigue, etc. Introducing automation in robotic surgery could reduce the workload of the surgeons and maintain consistence in surgical procedures. In this talk, we will introduce our on-going work on automation in robotic surgery, including surgical instruments segmentation and tracking for automatic laparoscopes, surgical scene/flow understanding, human-robot collaborative surgery, etc.
BIOGRAPHY
Yun-hui Liu received B. Eng. degree in Applied Dynamics from Beijing Institute of Technology, M. Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Osaka University, and Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Tokyo. After working at the national Electrotechnical Laboratory of Japan as a Research Scientist, he joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 1995 and is currently Choh-Ming Li Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Director of the CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute, and the Director/CEO of Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics funded by the InnoHK clusters of the HKSAR government. He has published more than 500 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and was listed in the Highly Cited Authors (Engineering) by Thomson Reuters in 2013. His research interests include vision-based robotics, machine intelligence and their applications in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and constructions. Prof. Liu has received numerous research awards from international journals and international conferences in robotics and automation, and from government agencies. In recent years, he has been actively transferring robotics technologies developed at university labs to industries, and co-founded VisionNav Robotics, CornerStone Robotics, and Zanecon Robotics. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Robotics and Biomimetics and served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTION ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION. He is an IEEE Fellow and a HKIE Fellow.