Yexiang Xue
Papers
9
Total Citations
142
H-Index
7
About
Dr. Yexiang Xue is a leading researcher in semi-autonomous robotic surgery, with a focus on enabling life-saving telesurgery in austere and remote environments. Her work addresses the critical challenge of communication delays and low bandwidth, which can render conventional telesurgery dangerous or impossible. She has pioneered frameworks for dexterous skill transfer between robots and surgical procedures, creating systems like DESERTS and ASAP that allow robots to operate semi-autonomously during network disruptions. Dr. Xue’s contributions include the development of the DESK dataset, a key resource for training machine learning models in surgical robotics, and novel approaches to sequential prediction with logic constraints for activity recognition. Her research has been cited over 140 times, with her most influential papers—such as the DESK dataset and the DESERTS framework—each garnering more than 20 citations. Dr. Xue’s work has direct implications for military medicine, disaster response, and rural healthcare, demonstrating how intelligent robotic systems can overcome infrastructure limitations to deliver critical surgical care.
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- 2DESERTS: DElay-tolerant SEmi-autonomous Robot Teleoperation for Surgery25 citations · 2021
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- 6SARTRES: a semi-autonomous robot teleoperation environment for surgery15 citations · 2020
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