Danail Stoyanov
Professor of Robot Vision
Develops computer vision and AI for surgical robotics and image-guided intervention.
Danail Stoyanov's lab at UCL works on robot perception & SLAM and soft, surgical & micro robots. 193 papers since 2023, 29 at top venues, mostly Medical Image Analysis and RA-L.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 50/ year
- at T1 venues
- 15%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 56 papers2026 · T1 8 · collecting
- 26 papers2025 · T1 3
- 56 papers2024 · T1 10
- 55 papers2023 · T1 8
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Medical Image Analysis, RA-L, TMI, MICCAI, IROS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Soft, surgical & micro robots60 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM8 papers
- surgical robotics2 papers
- image-guided1 paper
- develops computer0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202656 papers
- Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI3D Acetabular Surface Reconstruction from 2D Pre-operative X-Ray Images Using SRVF Elastic Registration and Deformation Graph
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOLOGY AND SURGERYA benchmark of methods for surgical instrument segmentation in endoscopic pituitary surgery
- IEEE Sensors JournalA Compact High-Performance MR Safe Pneumatic Stepper Motor (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific ReportsA multicentre benchmark dataset for comprehensive landmark-based fetal ultrasound biometry (opens in a new tab)
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOLOGY AND SURGERYAction classification for endoscopic pituitary adenoma resection: a consensus-based study
- Operative NeurosurgeryActive Annotation Versus Passive Review of Operative Videos for Training in Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery: A Preclinical Randomized Controlled Study
- JMIR Research ProtocolsAI Models to Reduce Surgical Complications Through Intraoperative Video Analysis: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study (opens in a new tab)
- TMI (T1)AnatoDiff: Synthesizing Anatomically Truthful Radiographs With Limited Training Images (opens in a new tab)
- Int J Comput Assist Radiol SurgBenchmarking variability in semantic segmentation in minimally invasive abdominal surgery. (opens in a new tab)
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOLOGY AND SURGERYBlob representation of robotic surgical scenes for position-aware video generation
- Photonics ResearchColor-polarimetric stereo endoscopy for high-quality 3D reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Analysis (T1)Comparative validation of surgical phase recognition, instrument keypoint estimation, and instrument instance segmentation in endoscopy: Results of the PhaKIR 2024 challenge
202526 papers
- International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery3D reconstruction in endonasal pituitary surgery (opens in a new tab)
- SCIENTIFIC DATAA Rectal Cancer Surgery Dataset: Use of artificial intelligence to aid automation of error identification
- npj Digital MedicineA surgical approach to building impactful artificial intelligence (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and BionicsAdjunct Tools for Colonoscopy Enhancement: a Comprehensive Review (opens in a new tab)
- British Journal of OphthalmologyApplication of real-time artificial intelligence to cataract surgery (opens in a new tab)
- Annals of SurgeryArtificial Intelligence Assisted Surgical Scene Recognition. A Comparative Study Amongst Healthcare Professionals (opens in a new tab)
- NeurosurgeryAutomated Operative Phase and Step Recognition in Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery: Development and Preclinical Evaluation of a Deep Learning Neural Network (IDEAL Stage 0) (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringComparison Between the PAF Rail and Surgical Instruments for Organ Manipulation in Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery: A Randomised Cross-Over Usability Study. (opens in a new tab)
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOLOGY AND SURGERYConsisTNet: a spatio-temporal approach for consistent anatomical localization in endoscopic pituitary surgery
- ECCV WorkshopDARES: Depth Anything in Robotic Endoscopic Surgery with Self-supervised Vector-LoRA of the Foundation Model (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and SurgeryDivGI: delve into digestive endoscopy image classification (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Sensors JournalGelPoLight: A Novel Visual Tactile Sensor Based on Photometric Stereo with Point Lighting (opens in a new tab)
202456 papers
- Journal of Neurological Surgery Part B: Skull BaseA Handheld Robot for Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery: Updated Preclinical Validation Study (IDEAL Stage 0) (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LA Novel Assistive Imaging Device for Colon Map Reconstruction
- International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and SurgeryA spatio-temporal network for video semantic segmentation in surgical videos (opens in a new tab)
- BMC CancerA systematic methodology review of fluorescence-guided cancer surgery to inform the development of a core master protocol and outcome set (opens in a new tab)
- The Hamlyn Symposium on Medical RoboticsAn adaptable robotic arm-based research platform for the capture of multi-view datasets (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and SurgeryAn investigation into augmentation and preprocessing for optimising X-ray classification in limited datasets: a case study on necrotising enterocolitis (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)An MR Safe Double-Arch Needle Insertion Robot with Scissor-Folding Mechanism for Abdominal Percutaneous Interventions*. (opens in a new tab)
- npj Digital MedicineArtificial intelligence assisted operative anatomy recognition in endoscopic pituitary surgery (opens in a new tab)
- Neuropathology and Applied NeurobiologyArtificial intelligence in histopathological image analysis of central nervous system tumours: A systematic review (opens in a new tab)
- Healthcare Technology LettersAutomated surgical skill assessment in endoscopic pituitary surgery using real-time instrument tracking on a high-fidelity bench-top phantom (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and SurgeryAutonomous control of an ultrasound probe for intra-operative ultrasonography using vision-based shape sensing of pneumatically attachable flexible rails (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Analysis (T1)Chapter 15 Image mosaicking
202355 papers
- CGF3D Generative Model Latent Disentanglement via Local Eigenprojection (opens in a new tab)
- DEMI : Data Engineering in Medical ImagingA Client-Server Deep Federated Learning for Cross-Domain Surgical Image Segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- SensorsA Deep Learning Approach to Classify Surgical Skill in Microsurgery Using Force Data from a Novel Sensorised Surgical Glove (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAIA Multi-task Network for Anatomy Identification in Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery (opens in a new tab)
- MICCAI WorkshopA Self-supervised Approach for Detecting the Edges of Haustral Folds in Colonoscopy Video (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Analysis (T1)A Temporal Learning Approach to Inpainting Endoscopic Specularities and Its Effect on Image Correspondence (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and SurgeryAn adaptable research platform for ex vivo normothermic machine perfusion of the liver (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and HepatologyArtificial intelligence and automation in endoscopy and surgery (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)ASPnet: Action Segmentation with Shared-Private Representation of Multiple Data Sources (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Surgical EducationAutomated analysis of intraoperative phase in laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A comparison of one attending surgeon and their residents (opens in a new tab)
- Biomedical Optics ExpressAutomated colonoscopy withdrawal phase duration estimation using cecum detection and surgical tasks classification (opens in a new tab)
- Intelligence-Based MedicineAutomatic generation of operation notes in endoscopic pituitary surgery videos using workflow recognition (opens in a new tab)
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