February 12th, 2025 
Daniela Lopez de Luise Special Session on AI in Surgery
Hosted at the 29th Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, MIUA 2025,
15 – 17 July 2025,
Leeds, UK.
Dear colleagues
We invite submissions to the special session on AI in Surgery hosted at MIUA 2025 – the UK premier conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis.
MIUA Proceedings are published by Springer LNCS.
Topics of interests include:
Data and Model Development
- Curating high-fidelity, open-access surgical datasets for AI training and validation.
- Innovative methods for self-supervised and semi-supervised learning in surgical AI applications.
- Development and application of foundation models for surgery.
- Data augmentation techniques tailored for surgical scenarios.
Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Postoperative AI Applications
- AI-powered decision support systems for preoperative planning and risk assessment.
- Real-time AI for intraoperative surgical guidance and navigation.
- AI in postoperative monitoring and outcome prediction.
Emerging Technologies and Innovations
- Surgical Patient Digital Twins for personalized simulation and planning.
- AI for robotic-assisted surgery, including teleoperated and autonomous systems.
- Multimodal data fusion for enhanced surgical decision-making.
- Advancements in AI-driven surgical simulation and training.
Surgical Video and Image Analysis
- Sustainable AI solutions for surgical video processing and annotation.
- AI for surgical skill assessment using video analytics.
- Real-time segmentation and object detection in surgical images.
Collaboration and Integration
- Human-AI collaboration in surgery to enhance collective intelligence.
- Strategies for engaging clinicians in co-creating AI applications.
- Challenges and solutions for integrating AI into clinical workflows.
Security, Ethics, and Trust
- Secure and robust AI systems for surgical care.
- Addressing ethical considerations and building trust in AI for surgery.
- Ensuring regulatory compliance for AI-based surgical tools.
Evaluation and Validation
- Benchmarking AI performance in surgical environments.
- Clinical trials and real-world validation of AI tools.
- Metrics and methodologies for evaluating AI in surgery.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 20 March 2025
Author Notification (Regular Papers): Friday 2 May 2025
Conference: Tuesday 15 – Thursday 17 July 2025
Organizers:
Dr. Hazrat Ali, University of Stirling.
Professor Muhammad Bilal, Birmingham City University.
Professor Shazad Ashraf, NHS.
Sincerely,
Hazrat
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