Program

Joint AE-CAI | PRiSM Workshop @ MICCAI 2026

2026 AE-CAI | PRiSM PROGRAM

Note: Paper numbers in this program are based on the CMT submission ID.

đź“Ť Room: Amsterdam, Floor G

08:00 — Joint Opening Remarks (AECAI–OR 2.0–CARE–PRiSM) & 20th Anniversary AECAI Welcome

Cristian LINTE, Marta KERSTEN-OERTEL & Sharib ALI

08:10 — Short Oral #1: Endoscopic Reconstruction & Depth: Paper #: 1, 8, 13, 17, 30, 35

Chairs: Duygu SARIKAYA & Sharib ALI

  1. Endo-DGS: A Deformable 3D Gaussian Splatting Pipeline for Occlusion-Robust, Photorealistic 4D Endoscopic Reconstruction
  2. When Do Reproducible Scores Support a Valid Comparison in Dynamic Endoscopic Reconstruction?
  3. GC-EndoGaussian: Residual-Centered Sparse Control for Editable Endoscopic 4D Gaussian Reconstruction
  4. EndoPASWave: Foundation Model Adaptation via PAS-LoRA and Wavelet-Domain Decoding for Endoscopic Metric Depth Estimation
  5. Bright ≠ Near: Auditing and Mitigating Illumination Shortcuts in Ground-Truth-Free Endoscopic Depth
  6. SpectralRegNet: Self-Supervised Spectral Constraints for Low-Overlap Partial Non-rigid Laparoscopic Point Cloud Registration

08:45 — Short Oral #2: Registration, Tracking & Surgical Scene Modeling: Paper #: 40, 27, 32, 28, 50

Chairs: MIKOLAJ KOWAL & Stamatia Giannarou

  1. Appearance Transfer Shader for Gaussian Splatting in Endoscopic Images
  2. Evaluating Transformation Models for pCLE Mosaic Registration
  3. Registration of Stereo Endoscopy to CT through Semantic Relations
  4. Training-Free Construction of 3D Time-Series Surgical Scene Graphs via Surface-Normal-Guided Segmentation
  5. A Fast Framework for Metric 3D Reconstructions and Vision-Based Tracking for Surgical Robotic Platforms

09:15 — Poster & Demo Session I

10:00 — Coffee Break + Poster & PRiSM Demo Session I continues

10:30 — Short Oral #3: Augmented Reality & Image-Guided Intervention: Paper #: 2, 3, 15, 16, 25, 29

Chairs: Marta KERSTEN-OERTEL & Cristian LINTE

  1. Point-and-Shoot Targeting for Efficient Neurosurgical Trajectory Planning in Mobile Augmented Reality
  2. Inter-Operator Variability in Augmented Reality-Guided Breast Tumor Localization
  3. Phantom Validation of an AR/VR Guidance Framework for Complex Articular Fracture Reduction
  4. Depth-Augmented 3D–2D Liver Registration with Statistical Shape-Space Refinement for Laparoscopic AR
  5. In-room Calibration of a Time-of-Flight Sensor Using Surface Reconstruction for Augmented Reality-Guided Surgery
  6. Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of SAM3 for Left Atrium Segmentation from MR Images for Improved Planning and Guidance of Cardiac Ablation Interventions

11:10 — Short Oral #4: Robotic, Ultrasound & Mixed-Reality Guidance: Paper #: 46, 51, 36, 54, 10

Chairs: Stamatia Giannarou & Sharib ALI

  1. Feasibility of Augmented Reality-Guided Robotic Ultrasound with Cone-Beam CT Integration for Spine Procedures
  2. Towards Practical Mobile Augmented Reality Guidance for Ventriculostomy
  3. Towards Automated Initial Probe Placement in Transthoracic Teleultrasound Using Human Mesh and Skeleton Recovery
  4. A Low-Latency Mixed Reality Teleoperation Console for Bedside Robotic Surgery
  5. hudini: Recovering da Vinci Xi System State from the Heads-Up Display in Surgical Video

11:40 Poster & PRISM Demo Session 2

12:30 — Lunch (with Poster & Demo Session)

13:30 — Short Oral #5: Surgical AI, Recognition & Skill Assessment: Paper #: 4, 22, 23, 41, 55, 44

Chairs: Duygu SARIKAYA & Stamatia Giannarou

  1. Annotation-Free Representation Learning for Colonoscopy Video Retrieval
  2. Automatic Segmentation of Complex Right Colonic Vasculature: A Novel Dataset and Feasibility Benchmark
  3. Safer Female Pelvic Laparoscopy: Spatio-temporal Mamba-based Ureter Segmentation with U-Net Refinement
  4. Explainable Transformer-Based Phase Recognition for Transabdominal Preperitoneal Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair
  5. Semantic RGB–Depth Based Surgical Skill Assessment in Microscopic Stereo Videos
  6. Objective Skill Assessment Using RGB-D Cameras in Central Venous Catheterization

14:10 — Short Oral #6: Simulation, Training & Human Factors: Paper #: 11, 43, 47, 45, 58

Chairs: Marta KERSTEN-OERTEL & MIKOLAJ KOWAL

  1. BLISS: A Browser-Based Cross-Platform Patient-Specific Liver Surgery Simulator with AR/VR Support
  2. Patient-Specific Virtual Reality for Lumbar Decompression Surgery: An Automated Imaging Pipeline and Educational Assessment
  3. AnatomyCarve: Interactive Segment-Aware Anatomical Exploration for Surgical Planning and Education
  4. The Effect of Virtual Reality and Haptic Feedback on the Learning Curve for Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Insertion
  5. Gaze-Based Evaluation of Stereoscopic AR vs. Standard 2D for Minimally Invasive Surgical Training

14:40 — Poster & Demo Session III

15:30 — Coffee Break + Poster & PRiSM Demo Session continues

16:00 — 20th Anniversary Panel — 20 Years of AE-CAI: Looking Back and Looking Forward

17:45 — Closing Remarks & Awards Cristian LINTE, Sharib ALI & Marta KERSTEN-OERTEL