26-30 July 2026

EMBC 2026

Toronto, Canada
Tu.2.9: Surgical Planning, Navigation & Interventional Guidance
Tuesday, 28 July, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Room 701B
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Cristian Linte and Lueder Kahrs
Theme 8: Therapeutic & Diagnostic Systems and Technologies
Tue, 28 Jul, 11:30 - 11:45

Tu.2.9.1: LEARN TO PLAN: DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING BASED PLANNING FOR CONFORMAL THERMAL ABLATION
Libin Liang, Xi’an Jiaotong University; Xinlin Xu, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Inaara Ahmed-Fazal, Derek Cool, Aaron Fenster, Western University
Tue, 28 Jul, 11:45 - 12:00

Tu.2.9.2: CORRECTING DEPTH BIAS IN SINGLE ARUCO MARKER TRACKING FOR SURGICAL APPLICATIONS
Haoliang Zhang, University of Oklahoma; Albert EL Amm, Independent Researcher; Christian El Amm, Samuel Cheng, University of Oklahoma
Tue, 28 Jul, 12:00 - 12:15

Tu.2.9.3: PERSONALIZED ACCURATE ABLATION PREDICTION FOR LASER INTERSTITIAL THERMAL THERAPY IN MALIGNANT GLIOMA
Zhicheng Zhang, Wenqing Yan, Tsinghua University; Pei Yang, Dabiao Zhou, Beijing Tiantan Hospital Capital Medical University; Nadiya Abududikeyimu, Guangzhi Wang, Tsinghua University
Tue, 28 Jul, 12:15 - 12:30

Tu.2.9.4: ASSESSMENT OF DNA DAMAGE AND REPAIR OUTCOME FOR A CONTROLLABLE HIGH-DOSE-RATE I-125 BRACHYTHERAPY CAPSULE USING TOPAS-NBIO AND MEDRAS-MC
Robert Herdman, Cassidy Moreau, David Roque, Kennesaw State University; Jaehyeon Lee, Walton High School; Peter Hesketh, Georgia Institute of Technology; David Yu, Emory University School of Medicine; Hoseon Lee, Kennesaw State University
Tue, 28 Jul, 12:30 - 12:45

Tu.2.9.5: WITHIN-ACTIVE-AREA COVARIANCE MODELING FOR ROBUST FBG STYLET SHAPE SENSING
Yinsong Ma, Jacynthe Francoeur, Jin Seob Kim, Iulian Iordachita, Johns Hopkins University
Tue, 28 Jul, 12:45 - 13:00

Tu.2.9.6: Automated and deterministic Trajectory Planning for Stereotactic Brain Biopsy Using Patient-Specific Anatomical Modeling and Exhaustive Discrete Search
Mohammad Jafari Vayeghan, University of Tehran; Niloufar Delfan, York University; Sara Parvaresh Rizi, University of Toronto; Mansour Parvaresh Rizi, Iran University of Medical Sciences; Mehdi Tale Masouleh, University of Tehran; Ebrahim Ghafar-zadeh, York University; Behzad Moshiri, University of Tehran