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Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her project CRII: RI: RUI: Generating Haptics in Telerobotics through Perception Complementarities during Physical Distancing. The project is for two years. 

Award number: 2101107 


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. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2424905X21400031


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. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21155163


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)https://doi.org/10.1109/ismr48331.2020.9312951  


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)https://doi.org/10.1109/irc.2020.00013  


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)https://doi.org/10.1109/irc.2020.00014 


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 Mount Holyoke research students to participate in her ongoing medical robotics research projects.