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Melody Su

Publication

Huang, K.; Chitrakar, D.; Jiang, W.; Yung, I. & Su, Y.H. (2022). Surgical Tool Segmentation with Pose-Informed Morphological Polar Transform of Endoscopic Images. Journal of Medical Robotics Research (2022).

Huang, K.; Chitrakar, D.; Jiang, W. & Su, Y.H. (2021). Enhanced U-Net Tool Segmentation Using Hybrid Coordinate Representations of Endoscopic Images. 2021 International Symposium On Medical Robotics (ISMR) 

Su, Y.H., Huang, K., & Hannaford, B. (2021). Multicamera 3D Viewpoint Adjustment for Robotic Surgery via Deep Reinforcement Learning. Journal of Medical Robotics Research (2021): 2140003.

Su, Y.H.; Jiang, W.; Chitrakar, D.; Huang, K.; Peng, H.; Hannaford, B. Local Style Preservation in Improved GAN-Driven Synthetic Image Generation for Endoscopic Tool Segmentation. Sensors 2021, 21, 5163.

Su, Y.H., Huang, K., & Hannaford, B. (2020). Multicamera 3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Surgical Cavities: Autonomous Optimal Camera Viewpoint Adjustment. 2020 International Symposium On Medical Robotics (ISMR).   

Su, Y.H., Sosnovskaya, Y., Hannaford, B., & Huang, K. (2020). Securing Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery through Perception Complementarities. 2020 Fourth IEEE International Conference On Robotic Computing (IRC).   

Su, Y.H., Munawar, A., Deguet, A., Lewis, A., Lindgren, K., & Li, Y. et al. (2020). Collaborative Robotics Toolkit (CRTK): Open Software Framework for Surgical Robotics Research. 2020 Fourth IEEE International Conference On Robotic Computing (IRC).  

Honor

Liu, W.; Pickett, A.; Huang, K. & Su, Y.H. (2022). Camera Configuration Models for Machine Vision Based Force Estimation in Robot-Assisted Soft Body Manipulation. 2022 International Symposium On Medical Robotics (ISMR).

Melody Su continues her strong medical robotics research connections with UW, RIT, JHU and Trinity College. With the recent renovation completion of her new Intelligent Medical Robotics (IMeRo) research lab, she recruited eight Õý°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê research students to participate in her ongoing medical robotics research projects.

Geoffrey S. Sumi

Publication

Sumi, G. S. (2021). Spectatorship, Control, and Collective Groups. In A. Futrell and T. Scanlon (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (pp. 603–13). Oxford University Press.