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Seth Billings is a researcher at the intersection of surgical robotics and medical imaging, with a primary focus on advancing computer-assisted interventions. His key research areas include robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery, real-time ultrasound elastography, and minimally invasive registration for orthopedic procedures. Billings made significant contributions to restoring haptic feedback in robotic surgery through his work on system-integrated elastography, enabling surgeons to perform virtual palpation during minimally invasive procedures. His 2012 paper on robot-assisted real-time laparoscopic ultrasound elastography, with 33 citations, demonstrates the impact of his work in addressing the critical loss of tactile information in robotic surgery. Billings further advanced the field by developing multi-stream GPU-accelerated elastography techniques, achieving real-time processing for applications such as thermal monitoring of tissue ablation during cancer interventions. His work on the P-IMLOP algorithm for combining tracked ultrasound with bone surface points represents an important contribution to computer-assisted orthopedic surgery, improving registration accuracy for minimally invasive procedures. Through these innovations, Billings has helped bridge the gap between open and robotic surgery by restoring essential haptic feedback capabilities.