Computer Vision News - April 2020

2 Summary AI in Medical Imaging 10 Stamatia (Matina) Giannarou is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, and a lecturer in surgical cancer technology and imaging at the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London. Continuing our series of interviews with experts from the MICCAI field, we speak to Matina about progress and innovation in the application of AI in robotic surgery. With Stamatia (Matina) Giannarou. Matina’s fellowship is focused on building a platform, the NEURO platform , which aims to provide enhanced vision for surgeons during neurosurgery. It has many different components, including navigation, robotic scanning and tissue characterization. The aim of surgical oncology is to resect the entire tumor with minimal iatrogenic injury to the surrounding healthy tissue. For brain cancers, this can be particularly challenging, and the prognosis for patients is poor. Current techniques, like neuronavigation, intraoperative MRI, and fluorescent imaging, have significant limitations intraoperatively, or they cannot provide the complete tumor margins. Matina’s work aims to combine multiple imaging techniques with robotic tools for accurate delineation of the tumor margins. Matina tells us she is workingwith probe- based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) and intraoperative ultrasound . “With the endomicroscopy, we can see underneath the tissue surface,” she says. “We can see the cellular morphology. We are looking at microscopic scale. “The aim of surgical oncology is to resect the entire tumor with minimal iatrogenic injury to the surrounding healthy tissue." "Matina’s work aims to combine multiple imaging techniques with robotic tools for accurate delineation of the tumor margins."