ICRA 2025 Full Day Workshop (May 19, 2025)
The workshop will take place at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA – Meeting Room: 303.
Please make sure to register before arriving at the workshop room. Venue and registration info is available here: https://2025.ieee-icra.org/attend/
Abstract
Vascular diseases are leading causes of ischemic heart disease and stroke and lead to significant global mortality. Endovascular interventions, such as neuroendovascular and cardiovascular interventions are a minimally invasive approach that provides the benefit of faster recovery, less general anesthesia, reduced blood loss, and lower mortality compared to open surgery. This approach now includes advanced procedures like complex aneurysm repair, stent placement for peripheral artery disease, valve replacement, and novel therapy delivery beyond traditional cardiac ablation, angioplasty, and stenting.
Despite its advantages, endovascular intervention face limitations such as excessive radiation exposure, lack of 3D mapping and haptic feedback. Robotically steerable catheter and guidewire technologies have emerged as a promising solution, enhancing precision, stability, reducing radiation doses, and improving access to complex anatomies.
The workshop aims to explore clinical opportunities, technical requirements, and regulatory challenges for robot-assisted endovascular interventions. It seeks to unite researchers, engineers, and clinicians from academia and industry to discuss and identify new applications and barriers in this field. The workshop’s goal is to foster collaboration between academia and industry to address and overcome the technical, clinical, regulatory, and translational challenges for practical clinical implementation of robotic endovascular interventions.
Workshop Highlights
- This ICRA 2025 Workshop will provide the framework to engage researchers, clinicians, and companies to discuss about the future of robot-assisted endovascular interventions including clinical opportunities, technical requirements, and regulatory and translational challenges.
- It will involve in-person and virtual (invited/keynote) presentations. Through the virtual option, it will enable researchers and other participants, who might not be able to join in person or who usually do not attend robotics-related conferences, to attend and participate in the workshop.
- Focused on facilitating the interaction between junior and experienced researchers.
- Clinical speakers will outline the challenges in the field and the feasibility of the presented technology.
- Gender and geographical diversity among the invited speakers is our priority.
Organizers
Jaydev P. Desai, FIEEE, FAIMBE, FASME
Peterson Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Email: jaydev@gatech.edu URL: https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/faculty/Jaydev-Desai
Giulio Dagnino
Associate Professor of Medical Robotics
RaM Lab, University of Twente, NL
Email: g.dagnino@utwente.nl URL: https://people.utwente.nl/g.dagnino
Speakers
Alan Lumsden – Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
Franziska Mathis-Ullrich – FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Brooks Lindsey – Georgia Institute of Technology
Giulio Dagnino – University of Twente
Islam Khalil – University of Twente
Jaydev P. Desai – Georgia Institute of Technology
Jonathan Grossberg – Emory University
Gernot Kronreif – Austrian Center for Medical Innovation and Technology
Quentin Boehler – ETH Zurich
Joanna D. Bertram -Duke University
Xuanhe Zhao – MIT
Schedule
Time
08:30 – 09:00
09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:30
13:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:40
15:40 – 16:00
16:00-16:25
16:25-16:55
16:55-17:20
17:20-17:30
Program
Welcome and introduction to the WS [Jaydev P. Desai, Giulio Dagnino]
Session 1 – Clinical Perspectives: From Clinical Needs to Tech Specs
Alan Lumsden – Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, US – Robot Assisted Endovascular Intervention: Challenges and Opportunities
Jonathan Grossberg – Emory, US – Neuroendovascular need in robotics
Coffee Break
Session 2 – Navigation Strategies
Brooks Lindsey – Georgia Tech, US – Forward-viewing intravascular ultrasound imaging to guide robotic intervention
Franziska Mathis-Ullrich – FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE – [VIRTUAL, 5pm CET] – From Data to Decisions: Cognitive Learning Approaches in Autonomous Endovascular Robotics
Islam Khalil – University of Twente, NL – [VIRTUAL, 5.30pm CET] – Exploring Ex Vivo Challenges and Applications of Microrobots
Gernot Kronreif – Austrian Center for Medical Innovation and Technology, AT – [VIRTUAL, 6.00pm CET] – Endovascular Robots – Translational challenges
Networking/Lunch Break
Session 3 – Medical Robotic Devices in the Lab
Quentin Boehler – ETH Zurich, CH – Robotic Magnetic Navigation for Endovascular Treatments: From Bench to Bedside
Xuanhe Zhao – MIT, USA – [VIRTUAL] – Soft Neurovascular Robots: Innovation and Translation
Poster Teasers
- Ata Taghipour – Toronto Metropolitan University, CA – AI-Enhanced Robotic Guidance for Transcatheter PFO Closure Procedures
- Kaitlyn Clancy – McMaster University, CA – Automated Fabrication of Magnetic Soft Microrobots for Surgical Applications
- Somayeh Norouzi-Ghazbi – Toronto Metropolitan University, CA – ALTHEA: An Advanced Robot-Assisted Catheterization System
- Revanth Konda – Georgia Tech, US – Design, Analysis, and Demonstration of the COAST Guidewire Robot with Middle Tube Rotation for Endovascular Interventions
- Michael Brockdorff – University of Leeds, UK – Field Gradient-Based Object Tracking for Permanent Based Magnet Manipulation
- Ronghuai Qi – University of Nevada, US – Design and Development of a Robotic Transcatheter Delivery System for Aortic Valve Replacement
Poster Session + Coffee Break
Session 4 – Regulatory Process and Clinical Translation
Giulio Dagnino – University of Twente, NL – MR-Guided Endovascular Robotics
Jaydev P. Desai – Georgia Tech, US – Robot-Assisted Endovascular Interventions
Joanna Deaton Bertram – Duke University, US – Towards Integrated Shape and Force Sensing in a Micro-Scale Guidewire Robot
Round-Table Discussions [all speakers]
Poster Award and Closing Remarks {Jaydev P. Desai, Giulio Dagnino]
