Publications

Autonomous Neurosurgical Instrument Segmentation using End-to-End Learning

Published in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019

This Workshop paper is about instrument segmentation.We also release a NeuroID Dataset for microneurosurgical instrument segmentation.

Recommended citation: Kalavakonda, Niveditha, Zeeshan Qazi, Laligam Sekhar, Blake Hannaford. "Neurosurgical and Robotic Instrument Segmentation using Convolutional Neural Networks". Workshop Proceedings in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) ; 2019 June 16-20; Long Beach, California.

Assistive Technology for Aiding Tumor Resection in Skull-Base Surgery

Published in International Symposium on Medical Robotics 2019, 2019

This paper is about optimizing an Augmented Reality application for tumor excision to render under limited compute.

Recommended citation: N. Kalavakonda, L. Sekhar and B. Hannaford, "Augmented Reality Application for Aiding Tumor Resection in Skull-Base Surgery," 2019 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2019, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/ISMR.2019.8710203 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8710203

2017 Robotic Instrument Segmentation Challenge

Published in Medical Image Analysis Journal, 2019

This paper describes different approaches to surgical instrument segmentation.

Recommended citation: Allan, M., Shvets, A., Kurmann, T., Zhang, Z., Duggal, R., Su, Y., Rieke, N., Laina, I., Kalavakonda, N., Bodenstedt, S., García-Peraza, L.C., Li, W., Iglovikov, V.I., Luo, H., Yang, J., Stoyanov, D., Maier-Hein, L., Speidel, S., & Azizian, M. (2019). 2017 Robotic Instrument Segmentation Challenge. ArXiv, abs/1902.06426. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.06426.pdf

Learned Hand Gesture Classification through Synthetically Generated Training Samples

Published in 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018

This paper shows performance of sim-to-real transfer for gesture classification tasks.

Recommended citation: K. Lindgren, N. Kalavakonda, D. E. Caballero, K. Huang and B. Hannaford, "Learned Hand Gesture Classification Through Synthetically Generated Training Samples," 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) , Madrid, 2018, pp. 3937-3942. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593433 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8593433

Learned Hand Gesture Classification through Synthetically Generated Training Samples

Published in 14th IFToMM World Congress, 2015

This paper describes the design process of a robotic device used to rescue a child trapped in a borewell.

Recommended citation: Pattery, John Jose, Niveditha Kalavakonda, Jitu Verghese Kurian, Lekha Mohan, Jippu Jacob. "Design and Development of Robot for Borewell Rescue", Proceedings of the 14th IFToMM World Congress ; 2015 Oct 25-30; Taipei, Taiwan. doi:10.6567/IFToMM.14TH.WC.OS13.103 https://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?docid=P20150909001-201511-201511050030-201511050030-288-293

Development of virtual reality based robotic surgical trainer for patient-specific deformable anatomy

Published in 2015 Conference on Advances In Robotics (AIR ’15), 2015

This paper describes the design of an application for training surgeons for robotic surgery

Recommended citation: Niveditha Kalavakonda, Sourav Chandra, and Asokan Thondiyath. 2015. Development of virtual reality based robotic surgical trainer for patient-specific deformable anatomy. 2015 Conference on Advances In Robotics (AIR ’15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 16, 1–5. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2783449.2783465 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2783449.2783465