Opening of scientific program
Vice President for Research of the University of Basel: Prof. Torsten Schwede

Topic: Surgical robotics
Plenary talk: Embedding AI in robotic surgery, Prof. Elena De Momi

Robot-assisted cochlea-implants

Plenary talk: Prof. Stefan Weber

Welcome remarks
Conference co-organizer: Prof. Azhar Zam

Topic: Robots at the heart of clinical interventions

Plenary talk: High-precision robots as medical & surgical assistants: Jean-Marc Collet, Dr. Izabela Noll

Topic: Surgical robotics
Keynote: Robotics for Retinal Regenerative Therapy Delivery: Prof. Christos Bergeles

Topic: Medical lasers and optics
Keynote: Pulsed laser tissue ablation: Mechanisms, and optimization strategies for precision and efficacy: Prof. Alfred Vogel

Design, Static and Performance Analysis of a Parallel Robot for Head Stabilisation in Vitreoretinal Surgery: Hans Natalius

Design Evaluation of a Stabilized, Walking Endoscope Tip: Manuela Eugster

Tendon force control evaluation for an endoscope with series elastic actuation: Lorin Fasel

Lab Experiences on Impact Biomechanics of Human Head: Jose Luis Rueda Arreguín

Simulation of Echellogram Using Zemax OpticStudio and Matlab for LIBS: Hamed Abbasi

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy combined with artificial neural network for pre- carbonization detection in laserosteotomy: Ferda Canbaz

Impact of ear occlusion on in-ear sounds generated by intra-oral behaviors: Mohammad Khair

Towards Robotic Surgery for CartilageReplacement: A Review on Cartilage Defects: Philipp Krenn

Robot- and Laser-Assisted Bio-Sample Preparation: Development of an Integrated, Intuitive System: Cédric Duverney

Human-robot interaction in surgery, nursing, and industrial applications

Learned Task Space Control to Reduce the Effort in Controlling Redundant Surgical Robots: Murali Karnam

Development and Evaluation of a Force-Sensitive Flexure-Based Microgripper Concept: Cédric Duverney

Surgical planning, navigation, registration, and sensor fusion

Introducing a Modular Framework for Human Tracking with Inhomogeneous Sensor Systems: Nils Mandischer

Augmented reality based surgical navigation of the periacetabular osteotomy of Ganz - A pilot cadaveric study: Florentin Liebmann

Multimodal Risk-Map for Navigation Planning in Neurosurgical Interventions: Maximilian Gerst 

From Robot-Aided Rehablitiation to Wearable Exosuits: towards a symbiotic assistive technology
Plenary talk: Prof. Lorenzo Masia

Lower limb rehabilitation robotics. Sitting position and exoskeleton devices
Plenary talk: Dr. Mohamed Bouri

CYBATHLON session 

10:30 – 10:32 Welcome to the CYBATHLON session
Conference co-organizer: Prof. Robert Riener

10:32 – 10:47 Introduction talk: CYBATHLON and user-centred design

Plenary talk: Dr. Lukas Jaeger

10:47 – 11:02 Survey on user-centred design at the CYBATHLON: First insights
Plenary talk: Dr. Jan Meyer

11:02 – 11:07 Q&A session

11:07 – 11:31 Team insights, SoftHand Pro

11:31 – 11:54 Team insights, VariLeg enhanced

11:54 – 11:55 Closing remarks 
Conference co-organizer: Prof. Robert Riener

Robot-assisted rehabilitation: approaches for minimally-supervised therapy of hand function

Plenary talk: Dr. Olivier Lambercy

Welcome remarks

Conference co-organizer: Prof. Giuseppe Carbone

IISART special session:

Medical robot autonomy levels: what standards?
Organizer: Prof. Thierry Keller

14:00 - 14:10   Introduction: Prof. Thierry Keller

14:10 - 14:40   Degree of Autonomy - Observations from the Standardization Engine Room: Jan Veneman

14:40 - 15:10 The Autonomy Levels for Healthcare Robots: Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Hadassah Drukarch

15:10 - 15:30 Moderated General Discussion about Medical Robot Autonomy Levels (e.g. in Rehabilitation Robotics) and Relation between Risk Management concepts and Degree of Autonomy: Prof. Thierry Keller

Design and motion analysis of an exoskeleton robot for assisting human locomotion: Ionut Daniel Geonea

A Cable-Robot System for Promoting Healthy Postural Stability and Lower-Limb Biomechanics in Gait Rehabilitation: Carl Nelson

Observer based sliding mode control for a knee exoskeleton: Yujie Su

A compliant parallel manipulator for rehabilitation of the trunk after stroke: Daniel Díaz-Caneja

Development of a New Knee Endoprosthesis and Finite Element Analysis of Contact Stresses: Daniela Tarnita

Ankle rehabilitation of stroke survivors using Kuka LBR iiwa: Prof. Doina Pisla

Nonlinear dynamic analysis of human sit-to-stand movement with application to the robotic structures: Prof. Daniela Tarnita

Development of an automatic perturbator for dynamic posturographic analysis: Carlo Ferraresi

Designing a Robotized System for Rehabilitation Taking Into Account Anthropological Data of Patients: Artem Voloshin

Serious Games Strategies with Cable-Driven Robots for Rehabilitation Tasks: Thiago Alves

Daily Life Activities Analysis for Rehabilitation Purposes: Ferdaws Ennaiem

Design of a novel robot for upper limb rehabilitation: Prof. Giuseppe Carbone

Novel design of the ParReEx-elbow parallel robot for the rehabilitation of brachial monoparesis: Bogdan Gherman

Trunk Flexion-Extension in Healthy Subjects: Preliminary Analysis of Movement Profiles: Federica Ragni

Design Optimization and Dynamic Control of a 3-d.o.f. Planar Cable-Driven Parallel Robot for Upper Limb Rehabilitation: Ferdaws Ennaiem

First clinical evaluation of a spherical robotic system for shoulder rehabilitation: Prof. Doina Pisla

Use of Pneumatic Artificial Muscles in a Passive Upper Body Exoskeleton: Carlo Ferraresi

Welcome remarks & Conference structure
Conference organizer Prof. Georg Rauter

Opening and welcome remarks
Dean of the medical faculty, University of Basel: Prof. Primo Schär

Technical Session 1: Rehabilitation, nursing, assistance, and human performance analysis

Identifying disease specific gait kinematics using wearable sensors: knee versus hip osteoarthritis, Dr. Annegret Mündermann

Machine learning based Freezing of Gait detection for an on-demand cueing system, Vivian Waldheim

Workflow for 3D modeling of compliant actuators for active exoskeletons, Lukas Bergmann

Towards robotic manipulator assisted positioning in care, Pascal Gliesche

followIT - a wrist position annotation tool, Meret Björk Lindanis

System identification and control of the ankle joint with functional electrical stimulation, Felix Roehren

Combined estimation of gait phase and stair slope utilizing time history data, Florian Weigand

Guiding with Touch: Objective assessment and haptic cueing to improve surgical performance on virtual and robotic platforms

Keynote: Prof. Marcia O’Malley

Virtual coffee Break

Technical session 2: Novel algorithms in medical data analysis

Facial emotion recognition based on localized region segmentation, Herag Arabian

On the expansion of training datasets to improve deep learning-based cell organelle recognition in fluorescence microscopy images of virus-infected cells, Nils Busch

The effect of different priors on a discrete cosine transformation based EIT algorithm, Rongqing Chen

On a simple and fast thresholding method for spike sorting, Markus Chi-Haw Chou

Actin tail detection in fluorescence microscopic image sequences to investigate the cause of movement of subviral particles, Jan Chowanietz

Adversarial samples of a trained convolutional neural network model, Ning Ding

Award ceremony for "Life Time Achievement” of Prof. Manfred Husty

Announced by: Prof. Doina Pisla

Kinematics of  some Medical Robots

Keynote: Prof. Manfred Husty

Award ceremony for "Life Time Achievement” of Prof. Hannes Bleuler

Announced by: Dr. Mohamed Bouri

Haptics, Human factors, Ergonomy, Shisa Kanko 

Keynote: Prof. Hannes Bleuler

A Thirty Year Perspective on Medical Robotics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Plenary talk: Prof. Russell Taylor

Award ceremony for best papers (research, application, students, posters)

Carlo Ferraresi, Prof. Domen Novak, Prof. Med Amine Laribi, Prof. Giuseppe Carbone, Prof. Georg Rauter

Closing remarks

Conference organizer Prof. Georg Rauter

Tool or toy? Additive manufacturing at the point-of-care

Keynote: Dr. Florian Thieringer

Technical session 3: Surgical procedures and medical devices

High tibial osteotomy reduces compressive loads in the knee medial compartment and increases them in the lateral one during walking, Dr. Enrico De Pieri

Speed-torque relationship for self-tapping bone screw insertion, Jack Wilkie

Concept for the testing of automated functions in medical devices, Dr. Sandra Henn

Test rig for bone screw insertion modelling, Jack Wilkie

Robotic needle steering in deformable tissues with extreme learning machines, Pedro Henrique Suruagy Perrusi, Anna Cazzaniga

Technical session 4: Diagnosis, imaging, and surgical treatments

Cross-dataset evaluation of a CNN-based approach for surgical tool detection, Tamer Abdulbaki Alshirbaji

Microwave confocal image for the localization of lung cancer, Alberto Battistel

Kalman filtered depth prediction using Optical Coherence Tomography for laser bone cutting, Yakub Bayhaqi

Urethral Stricture model to estimate overdistention of healthy tissue, Ashish Bhave

CoBra robot for localized cancer treatment and diagnosis under real-time MRI, Sepaldeep Singh Dhaliwal

3D Printed Catheters in Organ Perfusion with respect to hemolysis, Susanne Kromnik

Technical session 5: Machine learning and models for medical applications

Correlation between intra-abdominal pressure and lung mechanics during laparoscopic gynecology, Nour Aldeen Jalal

Towards model-based temperature-control for retinal laser therapies, Viktoria Kleyman

Combining future and past predictions of a linear Kalman filter for subviral particle tracking, Andreas Rausch

On estimating the optimal autoencoder model for denoising ECG using Akaike Information Criterion, Fars Samann

Using singular value decomposition to adapt Prony’s method for signal denoising, Thomas Schanze

Classification of movement patterns of subviral particles using a support vector machine, Ricardo Mario Schuhmann

Surgical task expertise detected by a self-organizing neural network map, Rongrong Liu

Technical session 6: Ventilation

Separation of respiration and perfusion in electrical impedance tomography by harmonic analysis, Alberto Battistel

The effect of body mass index on pressure controlled ventilator settings, Carlotta Hennigs

Analysis of Respiration Induced Movements of the Upper Body in Different Breathing Patterns, Bernhard Laufer

Best paper awards and closing remarks

Philipp Rostalski, Kathrin Lunze, Thomas Seel, Georg Rauter