PhD opportunity on "Semi-supervised detection and tracking of instruments for robotic surgery guidance"

Tom Vercauteren
Dec 3, 2020 1 min read
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This project seeks to advance the state of the art in AI-based surgical tool detection and tracking by designing novel semi-supervised and weakly-supervised approaches able to achieve robust and real-time performance.

Representative sample images of robotic surgery (left) and state-of-the-art instrument segmentation results (right). True positive (white), true negative (black), false positive (magenta), and false negative (green).
Representative sample images of robotic surgery (left) and state-of-the-art instrument segmentation results (right). True positive (white), true negative (black), false positive (magenta), and false negative (green).

Aim of the PhD Project:

  • Robust, real-time detection and tracking of surgical tools
  • Learning from combined small-scale annotated and large-scale but non-annotated datasets of robotic surgery video footages
  • Advancing the state of the art in combining self-supervision, week-supervision, and semi-supervision for surgical vision tasks
  • Designing and validating stereo-vision based learning paradigms

1st Supervisor: Tom Vercauteren, King’s College London

2nd Supervisor: Miaojing Shi, King’s College London

Clinical Champion: Prokar Dasgupta, King’s College London

More information about the PhD project here.

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Tom Vercauteren
Tom Vercauteren
Professor of Interventional Image Computing

Tom’s research interests include machine learning and computer assisted interventions