Penn Computer Assisted Surgery and Outcomes Lab

About Us

The Penn Computer Assisted Surgery and Outcomes (PCASO) Laboratory is a multidisciplinary research group housed within Penn Surgery that aims to translate advances in data science and artificial intelligence to surgical care and to promote the integrated education of clinicians, engineers, and data scientists. With data sources spanning the range of pre-, intra-, and post-operative phases of care, we work with a wide range of data to investigate the association of intraoperative events with preoperative risk models and post-operative outcomes to improve the surgical decision-making process by augmenting surgeon perceptions with AI-enabled data insights. In addition, we are especially interested in developing and validating automated methods of providing surgeons with feedback on surgical technique both in simulated and clinical settings.

Mission

To lead the translation of surgical data science and artificial intelligence to surgical care to improve patient outcomes, facilitate surgical education, and promote interdisciplinary collaboration between computer scientists and surgeons.

News

  ·   February 2024

• Daniel Hashimoto awarded the Linda Pechenik Montague Investigator Award by the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM). The award was endowed by Linda Pechenik Montague to support the most promising research faculty at PSOM.

• Daniel Hashimoto was visiting professor at University College Dublin's Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and speaker at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Charter Week

• Vivek Singh had a video abstract accepted to DDW 2024

  ·   January 2024

• So Hee Ahn joins PCASO as a medical student researcher. With degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT prior to medical school, So Hee is joining our work on computer vision for analysis of robotic whipple procedures

• Shubha Vasisht had a video abstract accepted to SAGES 2024

• Daniel Hashimoto gave the Konvolinka Lecture in Surgical Innovation at Geisinger Medical Center

·   December 2023

• Guiqiu Liao, PhD, joins PCASO as a postdoctoral research fellow. Dr. Liao completed his PhD in computer science in a joint program between University of Strasbourg and University of Verona. 

• Daniel Hashimoto gave a lecture at Orsi Academy's AI Surgical AI Day in Ghent, Belgium

·   November 2023

• Daniel Hashimoto gives keynote lecture on AI in surgery at Ontario Association of General Surgeons

• Daniel Hashimoto awarded the American Surgical Association Foundation's Fellowship Research Award

• Daniel Hashimoto and Samuele Canas awarded the Intuitive Foundation Clinical Research Grant

·   October 2023

• Daniel Hashimoto serves as program chair for the 2023 Clinical Translation in Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (CLINICCAI) program at MICCAI 2023

·   September 2023

• Vivek Singh presented a poster at the 2023 Nudges Healthcare Symposium on his work on understanding patient perceptions of AI in interventional healthcare 

• Daniel Hashimoto presents on opportunities in surgical data science at the Big Data Machine Learning in Healthcare Japan Datathon hosted at Tokyo Medical and Dental University

• Sai Koushik joins PCASO Lab as an ESE master's student

·   August 2023

• Dr. Matjaz Jogan joins PCASO Lab as a Senior Research Investigator

• Daniel Hashimoto appointed to the Annals of Surgery Editorial Board for his expertise in AI applications of surgery and minimally invasive surgery

·   July 2023

• Shubha Vasisht joins PCASO Lab as a Penn Surgery Measey Scholar

• Vivek Singh joins PCASO Lab as a medical student research assistant

• Daniel Hashimoto is awarded a McCabe Fellows Award to support research on use of computer vision to study robotic pancreas surgery.

• Galen Leung, clinical assistant professor of medicine at Penn Medicine, is awarded a McCabe Pilot Award to work with PCASO on investigating the use of computer vision for endoscopic submucosal dissection

            ·   June 2023

• Fariha Tamboli graduates from Penn Engineering with a Master's in Robotics! She is continuing at PCASO through the summer as a research assistant

·   March 2023

• PCASO's multidisciplinary team of surgeons, computer scientists, and gastroenterologists was awarded a research grant from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy to investigate the use of computer vision and lifelong learning to guide submucosal dissection in per oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD)

•  Daniel Hashimoto featured on PennMedicine MD podcast discussing AI in surgery.

·   February 2023

• Daniel Hashimoto joins the American College of Surgeons, American Surgical Association, American Board of Surgery Blue Ribbon Committee II panel on surgical education as an AI consultant. The original Blue Ribbon Committee met in 2002.

·   January 2023

• Christina Boutros was first author on AI in HPB Surgery: Promises and Perils, the cover article for the journal Artificial Intelligence Surgery

• Welcome to Fariha Tamboli and Patrick Paglia-Garces who have joined the lab as Penn Engineering Robotics MSE students! 

·   October 2022

• Daniel Hashimoto and PCASO featured in Behind the Knife podcast’s series on Innovation in Surgery

• Daniel Hashimoto speaking at Penn GRASP Lab's GRASP on Robotics Seminar on 10/28/22 at 10:30am on "Building multidisciplinary teams for the surgical translation of artificial intelligence". Available to public by clicking here