Real-time mosaicing of fetoscopic videos using SIFT Fetoscopic laser photo-coagulation of the placental vascular anastomoses remains the most effective therapy for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) in monochorionic twin pregnancies. However, to ensure the success of the intervention, complete photo-coagulation of
GIFT-Surg Investigator receives EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Challenge Awards
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council have announced the nine researchers who were recipients of the EPSRC Healthcare Challenge Award, one of whom, Dr Adrien Desjardins, is an Investigator on the GIFT-Surg Research Project. The award winners will share in
News Report on Al Jazeera England airs today
Tune into the Al Jazeera England Newshour on Sunday 27 December at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm where the report into the GIFT-Surg Project will be airing live. If you missed the live Newshour you can catch up with the footage
Test servers to boost our software development process
Providing clinical-grade medical software applications for pre-operative planning and intra-operative navigation is a core vision of GIFT-Surg. In this process from bench to bedside, it is particularly important to follow a well-established software engineering process and to have a development
Pictures from the Bloomsbury Festival
We were pleased to participate in the Bloomsbury Festival as part of the Sparkling Saturday Research Hub on 24 October 2015. It was great fun to get out of the lab and share our research with the public and let
Jan Deprest featured on BBC News England
BBC England features Prof Jan Deprest catching up with a child who he performed surgery on whilst still in her mother’s womb in an interventional treatment for Spina Bifida. Watch the Broadcast Here
Dr Tom Vercauteren at MICCAI 2015
Dr Tom Vercauteren presents his research at the 18th International Conference on Medical Imaging Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention in Munich this week. Find out more about our conferences here.
GIFT-Surg at the Bloomsbury Festival 2015
Make sure you don’t miss GIFT-Surg at the Bloomsbury Festival on Saturday 24 October. We’ll be at the festival as part of the UCL Research Hub in Beveridge Hall, Senate House on the Saturday only, from 12pm. This year Bloomsbury
Real-time Mosaicing Video Released
Watch our newly released video illustrating the mosaicing techniques being used to help surgeons visualise the internal view of the placenta whilst operating. View Video
Paper wins 3rd Prize at the CRAS 2015 Workshop
Congratulations to the following authors who won 3rd prize at 5th Joint Workshop for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery, held in Brussels, 10 – 12 September 2015. “Design and Validation of Pneumatically Actuated Fetoscope”: Alain Devreker, Benoit Rosa, Jun Qian, Tom Vercauteren,