Sophia Bano
Associate Professor in Robotics and AI
Applies computer vision and AI to context awareness in surgery, including fetoscopic video analysis and surgical scene understanding.
Sophia Bano's lab at UCL works on recognition, detection & segmentation and video understanding. 43 papers since 2023, 6 at top venues, mostly MICCAI and npj Digit. Medicine.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 11/ year
- at T1 venues
- 14%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage and DBLP, 2023–2026
- 14 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 8 papers2025 · T1 0
- 15 papers2024 · T1 2
- 6 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: MICCAI, npj Digit. Medicine, CVPR, ECCV
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- surgery20 papers
- Recognition, detection & segmentation11 papers
- Video understanding2 papers
- context0 papers
- awareness0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage and DBLP.
202614 papers
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.A benchmark of methods for surgical instrument segmentation in endoscopic pituitary surgery (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.Action classification for endoscopic pituitary adenoma resection: a consensus-based study (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.Benchmarking variability in semantic segmentation in minimally invasive abdominal surgery (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsFetal SLAM: Monocular Endoscopic SLAM in Low-Texture Environment for Fetal Surgery (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.HyKey: hyperspectral keypoint detection and matching in minimally invasive surgery (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.IJCARS: IPCAI 2026 special issue - 17th international conference on information processing in computer-assisted interventions 2026 (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)iMED: A Multi-endoscope Dataset for Surgical 3D Perception (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.LumenGSLAM: online physically based rendering with Gaussian Splatting for robust endoscopic reconstruction and tracking (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.Multi-modal monocular endoscopic depth and pose estimation with edge-guided self-supervision (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.Robust quantification of ICG fluorescence perfusion in neonatal bowel surgery via deep point tracking (opens in a new tab)
- Artif. Intell. MedicineSurgflowNet: Leveraging unannotated video for consistent endoscopic pituitary surgery workflow recognition (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.SurgViVQA: temporally grounded video question answering for surgical scene understanding (opens in a new tab)
20258 papers
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.3D reconstruction in endonasal pituitary surgery (opens in a new tab)
- npj Digit. MedicineA surgical approach to building impactful artificial intelligence (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.ConsisTNet: a spatio-temporal approach for consistent anatomical localization in endoscopic pituitary surgery (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.DivGI: delve into digestive endoscopy image classification (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.IJCARS: IPCAI 2025 special issue - 16th international conference on information processing in computer-assisted interventions 2025 (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Anal.PitVis-2023 challenge: Workflow recognition in videos of endoscopic pituitary surgery (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Robotic Arm Platform for Multi-View Image Acquisition and 3D Reconstruction in Minimally Invasive Surgery (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng.Vision-Based Automatic Control of a Surgical Robot for Posterior Segment Ophthalmic Surgery (opens in a new tab)
202415 papers
- npj Digit. MedicineArtificial intelligence assisted operative anatomy recognition in endoscopic pituitary surgery (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.Correction to: Robust fetoscopic mosaicking from deep learned flow fields (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV WorkshopDARES: Depth Anything in Robotic Endoscopic Surgery with Self-supervised Vector-LoRA of the Foundation Model (opens in a new tab)
- MICCAI (T1)Gaussian Pancakes: Geometrically-Regularized 3D Gaussian Splatting for Realistic Endoscopic Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- Bildverarbeitung für die MedizinKeynote: Recent Advances in Surgical AI for Next Generation Interventions (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.Learning-based keypoint registration for fetoscopic mosaicking (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV WorkshopMismatched: Evaluating the Limits of Image Matching Approaches and Benchmarks (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE J. Biomed. Health InformaticsMonoLoT: Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation in Low-Texture Scenes for Automatic Robotic Endoscopy (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.PitSurgRT: real-time localization of critical anatomical structures in endoscopic pituitary surgery (opens in a new tab)
- MICCAI (T1)PitVQA: Image-Grounded Text Embedding LLM for Visual Question Answering in Pituitary Surgery (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Anal.Placental vessel segmentation and registration in fetoscopy: Literature review and MICCAI FetReg2021 challenge findings (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.Sensing Technologies for Guidance During Needle-Based Interventions (opens in a new tab)
20236 papers
- MICCAI (T1)A Multi-task Network for Anatomy Identification in Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery (opens in a new tab)
- —Anomaly detection in OCT images in patients on hydroxychloroquine: A data science approach
- Comput. methods Biomech. Biomed. Eng. Imaging Vis.Placental vessel-guided hybrid framework for fetoscopic mosaicking (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg.PseudoSegRT: efficient pseudo-labelling for intraoperative OCT segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- Comput. Biol. MedicineQuery2: Query over queries for improving gastrointestinal stromal tumour detection in an endoscopic ultrasound (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Why is the winner the best? (opens in a new tab)
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