Zhigang Deng
Papers
11
Total Citations
173
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About
Zhigang Deng is a leading researcher at the intersection of robotics, medical imaging, and human-computer interaction, with a primary focus on advancing minimally invasive surgery. His most significant contributions lie in developing cyber-physical systems that integrate real-time MRI with robotic control for beating-heart cardiac interventions. Deng pioneered novel frameworks for MR-based path planning and force-feedback guidance, enabling safer, image-guided robot-assisted procedures—work that has garnered over 39 citations for his seminal 2012 paper. He has also made substantial strides in tele-mentoring for surgery, creating systems that allow expert surgeons to remotely guide operating surgeons through visual and motion cues, with key papers accumulating 34 and 17 citations. More recently, Deng has expanded into computational conversation analysis, developing multimodal models for predicting speaker turns in multiparty dialogues, a notable shift that demonstrates his versatility. His achievements include designing user-interfaces for virtual surgical instruments and extracting geometric features from dynamic MRI for aortic valve interventions. With a career spanning over a decade, Deng’s work has profoundly impacted surgical robotics and human-machine collaboration, making him a pivotal figure in both medical technology and interactive systems.
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- 8Online Multimodal End-of-Turn Prediction for Three-party Conversations6 citations · 2024
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