| 2026 | AAAI | Where It Moves, It Matters: Referring Surgical Instrument Segmentation via Motion. | Meng Wei, Kun Yuan, Shi Li, Yue Zhou, Long Bai, Nassir Navab, Hongliang Ren, Hong Joo Lee, Tom Vercauteren, Nicolas Padoy |
| 2026 | AAAI | Bridging Vision and Language for Robust Context-Aware Surgical Point Tracking: The VL-SurgPT Dataset and Benchmark. | Rulin Zhou, Wenlong He, An Wang, Jianhang Zhang, Xuanhui Zeng, Xi Zhang, Chaowei Zhu, Haijun Hu, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | ICRA | SurgPLAN++: Universal Surgical Phase Localization Network for Online and Offline Inference. | Zhen Chen, Xingjian Luo, Jinlin Wu, Long Bai, Zhen Lei, Hongliang Ren, Sbastien Ourselin, Hongbin Liu |
| 2025 | ICRA | Variable-Stiffness Nasotracheal Intubation Robot with Passive Buffering: A Modular Platform in Mannequin Studies. | Ruoyi Hao, Jiewen Lai, Wenqi Zhong, Dihong Xie, Yu Tian, Tao Zhang, Yang Zhang, Catherine Po Ling Chan, Jason Ying-Kuen Chan, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | ICRA | Advancing Dense Endoscopic Reconstruction with Gaussian Splatting-Driven Surface Normal-Aware Tracking and Mapping. | Yiming Huang, Beilei Cui, Long Bai, Zhen Chen, Jinlin Wu, Zhen Li, Hongbin Liu, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | ICRA | Minimally Invasive Endotracheal Inside-Out Flexible Needle Driving System Towards Microendoscope-Guided Robotic Tracheostomy. | Botao Lin, Sishen Yuan, Tinghua Zhang, Tao Zhang, Ruoyi Hao, Wu Yuan, Chwee Ming Lim, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | IROS | Head-mounted Robotic Needle Positioning: Learning from Augmented Reality Demonstration of Neuronavigation and Planning. | Zhiwei Fang, Hok Man Hung, Huxin Gao, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | IROS | CapsDT: Diffusion-Transformer for Capsule Robot Manipulation. | Xiting He, Mingwu Su, Xinqi Jiang, Long Bai, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | IROS | Adjusting Tissue Puncture Omnidirectionally In Situ with Pneumatic Rotatable Biopsy Mechanism and Hierarchical Airflow Management in Tortuous Luminal Pathways. | Botao Lin, Tinghua Zhang, Sishen Yuan, Tiantian Wang, Jiaole Wang, Wu Yuan, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | IROS | Exploring Stiffness Gradient Effects in Magnetically Induced Metamorphic Materials via Continuum Simulation and Validation. | Wentao Shi, Yang Yang, Yiming Huang, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | IROS | Learning to Perform Low-Contact Autonomous Nasotracheal Intubation by Recurrent Action-Confidence Chunking with Transformer. | Yu Tian, Ruoyi Hao, Yiming Huang, Dihong Xie, Catherine Po Ling Chan, Jason Ying-Kuen Chan, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | IROS | Jacobian Exploratory Dual-Phase Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Endoluminal Navigation of Deformable Continuum Robots. | Yu Tian, Chi Kit Ng, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | IROS | Body-Temperature-Responsive Balloon Actuator for Adaptive In-Ear Microneedle Electrode Deployment. | Ruizhou Zhao, Wenchao Yue, Entong Li, Chengxi Bai, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | ICRA | Improving Efficiency in Path Planning: Tangent Line Decomposition Algorithm. | Yu Tian, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | ICRA | ETSM: Automating Dissection Trajectory Suggestion and Confidence Map-Based Safety Margin Prediction for Robot-Assisted Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection. | Mengya Xu, Wenjin Mo, Guankun Wang, Huxin Gao, An Wang, Long Bai, Chaoyang Lyu, Xiaoxiao Yang, Zhen Li, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | ICRA | Three-Dimension Tip Force Perception and Axial Contact Location Identification for Flexible Endoscopy Using Tissue-Compliant Soft Distal Attachment Cap Sensors. | Tao Zhang, Yang Yang, Yang Yang, Huxin Gao, Jiewen Lai, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | MICCAI | SurgSora: Object-Aware Diffusion Model for Controllable Surgical Video Generation. | Tong Chen, Shuya Yang, Junyi Wang, Long Bai, Hongliang Ren, Luping Zhou |
| 2025 | MICCAI | Endo-4DGX: Robust Endoscopic Scene Reconstruction and Illumination Correction with Gaussian Splatting. | Yiming Huang, Long Bai, Beilei Cui, Yanheng Li, Tong Chen, Jie Wang, Jinlin Wu, Zhen Lei, Hongbin Liu, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | MICCAI | SurgTPGS: Semantic 3D Surgical Scene Understanding with Text Promptable Gaussian Splatting. | Yiming Huang, Long Bai, Beilei Cui, Kun Yuan, Guankun Wang, Mobarak I. Hoque, Nicolas Padoy, Nassir Navab, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | MICCAI | Can DeepSeek Reason Like a Surgeon? An Empirical Evaluation for Vision-Language Understanding in Robotic-Assisted Surgery. | Boyi Ma, Yanguang Zhao, Jie Wang, Guankun Wang, Kun Yuan, Tong Chen, Long Bai, Hongliang Ren |
| 2025 | MICCAI | Recognizing Surgical Phases Anywhere: Few-Shot Test-Time Adaptation and Task-Graph Guided Refinement. | Kun Yuan, Tingxuan Chen, Shi Li, Jol L. Lavanchy, Christian Heiliger, Ege zsoy, Yiming Huang, Long Bai, Nassir Navab, Vinkle Srivastav, Hongliang Ren, Nicolas Padoy |
| 2025 | MICCAI | SAM 2 in Robotic Surgery: An Empirical Evaluation for Robustness and Generalization in Surgical Video Segmentation. | Jieming Yu, An Wang, Wenzhen Dong, Mengya Xu, Mobarakol Islam, Jie Wang, Long Bai, Hongliang Ren |
| 2024 | ICRA | OSSAR: Towards Open-Set Surgical Activity Recognition in Robot-assisted Surgery. | Long Bai, Guankun Wang, Jie Wang, Xiaoxiao Yang, Huxin Gao, Xin Liang, An Wang, Mobarakol Islam, Hongliang Ren |
| 2024 | IROS | ASI-Seg: Audio-Driven Surgical Instrument Segmentation with Surgeon Intention Understanding. | Zhen Chen, Zongming Zhang, Wenwu Guo, Xingjian Luo, Long Bai, Jinlin Wu, Hongliang Ren, Hongbin Liu |
| 2024 | IROS | Head-Mounted Hydraulic Needle Driver for Targeted Interventions in Neurosurgery. | Zhiwei Fang, Chao Xu, Huxin Gao, Danny Tat-Ming Chan, Wu Yuan, Hongliang Ren |
| 2024 | IROS | Towards Electricity-free Pneumatic Miniature Rotation Actuator for Optical Coherence Tomography Endoscopy. | Tinghua Zhang, Sishen Yuan, Chao Xu, Peng Liu, Hongliang Ren, Wu Yuan |
| 2024 | ICRA | Chained Flexible Capsule Endoscope: Unraveling the Conundrum of Size Limitations and Functional Integration for Gastrointestinal Transitivity. | Sishen Yuan, Guang Li, Baijia Liang, Lailu Li, Qingzhuo Zheng, Shuang Song, Zhen Li, Hongliang Ren |
| 2024 | ICRA | Magnetic-Guided Flexible Origami Robot toward Long-Term Phototherapy of H. pylori in the Stomach. | Sishen Yuan, Baijia Liang, Po Wa Wong, Mingjing Xu, Chi Hsuan Li, Zhen Li, Hongliang Ren |
| 2024 | ICRA | Inconstant curvature kinematics of parallel continuum robot without static model. | Tao Zhang, Huxin Gao, Hongliang Ren |
| 2024 | MICCAI | EndoUIC: Promptable Diffusion Transformer for Unified Illumination Correction in Capsule Endoscopy. | Long Bai, Tong Chen, Qiaozhi Tan, Wan Jun Nah, Yanheng Li, Zhicheng He, Sishen Yuan, Zhen Chen, Jinlin Wu, Mobarakol Islam, Zhen Li, Hongbin Liu, Hongliang Ren |
| 2024 | MICCAI | LighTDiff: Surgical Endoscopic Image Low-Light Enhancement with T-Diffusion. | Tong Chen, Qingcheng Lyu, Long Bai, Erjian Guo, Huxin Gao, Xiaoxiao Yang, Hongliang Ren, Luping Zhou |
| 2024 | MICCAI | EndoDAC: Efficient Adapting Foundation Model for Self-Supervised Depth Estimation from Any Endoscopic Camera. | Beilei Cui, Mobarakol Islam, Long Bai, An Wang, Hongliang Ren |
| 2024 | MICCAI | Endo-4DGS: Endoscopic Monocular Scene Reconstruction with 4D Gaussian Splatting. | Yiming Huang, Beilei Cui, Long Bai, Ziqi Guo, Mengya Xu, Mobarakol Islam, Hongliang Ren |
| 2024 | MICCAI | Benchmarking Robustness of Endoscopic Depth Estimation with Synthetically Corrupted Data. | An Wang, Haochen Yin, Beilei Cui, Mengya Xu, Hongliang Ren |
| 2024 | MICCAI | A Review of 3D Reconstruction Techniques for Deformable Tissues in Robotic Surgery. | Mengya Xu, Ziqi Guo, An Wang, Long Bai, Hongliang Ren |
| 2023 | ICRA | Surgical-VQLA:Transformer with Gated Vision-Language Embedding for Visual Question Localized-Answering in Robotic Surgery. | Long Bai, Mobarakol Islam, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Hongliang Ren |
| 2023 | IROS | Generalizing Surgical Instruments Segmentation to Unseen Domains with One-to-Many Synthesis. | An Wang, Mobarakol Islam, Mengya Xu, Hongliang Ren |
| 2023 | MICCAI | LLCaps: Learning to Illuminate Low-Light Capsule Endoscopy with Curved Wavelet Attention and Reverse Diffusion. | Long Bai, Tong Chen, Yanan Wu, An Wang, Mobarakol Islam, Hongliang Ren |
| 2023 | MICCAI | Revisiting Distillation for Continual Learning on Visual Question Localized-Answering in Robotic Surgery. | Long Bai, Mobarakol Islam, Hongliang Ren |
| 2023 | MICCAI | CAT-ViL: Co-attention Gated Vision-Language Embedding for Visual Question Localized-Answering in Robotic Surgery. | Long Bai, Mobarakol Islam, Hongliang Ren |
| 2023 | MICCAI | Rectifying Noisy Labels with Sequential Prior: Multi-scale Temporal Feature Affinity Learning for Robust Video Segmentation. | Beilei Cui, Minqing Zhang, Mengya Xu, An Wang, Wu Yuan, Hongliang Ren |
| 2023 | MICCAI | SurgicalGPT: End-to-End Language-Vision GPT for Visual Question Answering in Surgery. | Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Mobarakol Islam, Gokul Kannan, Hongliang Ren |
| 2023 | MICCAI | SAM Meets Robotic Surgery: An Empirical Study on Generalization, Robustness and Adaptation. | An Wang, Mobarakol Islam, Mengya Xu, Yang Zhang, Hongliang Ren |
| 2023 | MICCAI | S | An Wang, Mengya Xu, Yang Zhang, Mobarakol Islam, Hongliang Ren |
| 2022 | IROS | GESRsim: Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgical Robot Simulator. | Huxin Gao, Zedong Zhang, Changsheng Li, Xiao Xiao, Liang Qiu, Xiaoxiao Yang, Ruoyi Hao, Xiuli Zuo, Yanqing Li, Hongliang Ren |
| 2022 | IROS | Model-free and Uncalibrated Visual-feedback Control of Magnetically-Actuated Flexible Endoscopes. | Jiewen Tan, Junnan Xue, Xing Yang, Sishen Yuan, Wei Liu, Hongliang Ren, Shuang Song, Jiaole Wang |
| 2022 | MICCAI | Surgical-VQA: Visual Question Answering in Surgical Scenes Using Transformer. | Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Mobarakol Islam, Adithya K. Krishna, Hongliang Ren |
| 2022 | MICCAI | Rethinking Surgical Instrument Segmentation: A Background Image Can Be All You Need. | An Wang, Mobarakol Islam, Mengya Xu, Hongliang Ren |
| 2022 | MICCAI | Rethinking Surgical Captioning: End-to-End Window-Based MLP Transformer Using Patches. | Mengya Xu, Mobarakol Islam, Hongliang Ren |
| 2021 | BSN | Kirigami Strain Sensing on Balloon Catheters with Temporary Tattoo Paper. | Jia Li, Yeow Bok Seng, Godwin Ponraj, Kirthika Senthil Kumar, Catherine Jiayi Cai, Hongliang Ren |
| 2021 | ICRA | Remote-Center-of-Motion Recommendation toward Brain Needle Intervention Using Deep Reinforcement Learning. | Huxin Gao, Xiao Xiao, Liang Qiu, Max Q.-H. Meng, Nicolas Kon Kam King, Hongliang Ren |
| 2021 | ICRA | Chip-Less Wireless Sensing of Kirigami Structural Morphing Under Various Mechanical Stimuli Using Home-Based Ink-Jet Printable Materials. | Godwin Ponraj, Wei Le Yeo, Kirthika Senthil Kumar, Manivannan Sivaperuman Kalairaj, Catherine Jiayi Cai, Hongliang Ren |
| 2021 | ICRA | Magnetically-Connected Modular Reconfigurable Mini-robotic System with Bilateral Isokinematic Mapping and Fast On-site Assembly towards Minimally Invasive Procedures. | Xiao Xiao, Shilei Xu, Changsheng Li, Xiaoyi Gu, Huxin Gao, Max Q.-H. Meng, Hongliang Ren |
| 2021 | ICRA | Learning Domain Adaptation with Model Calibration for Surgical Report Generation in Robotic Surgery. | Mengya Xu, Mobarakol Islam, Chwee Ming Lim, Hongliang Ren |
| 2021 | ICRA | Origami-Inspired Snap-through Bistability in Parallel and Curved Mechanisms Through the Inflection of Degree Four Vertexes. | Bok Seng Yeow, Catherine Jiayi Cai, Manivannan Sivaperuman Kalairaj, Feng Wen Hoo, Zu Xuan Lee, Janice Chui Shien Tan, Jian Rong Ho, Vienna Minhui Ma, Hui Huang, Hongliang Ren |
| 2021 | MICCAI | Class-Incremental Domain Adaptation with Smoothing and Calibration for Surgical Report Generation. | Mengya Xu, Mobarakol Islam, Chwee Ming Lim, Hongliang Ren |
| 2020 | ICRA | AP-MTL: Attention Pruned Multi-task Learning Model for Real-time Instrument Detection and Segmentation in Robot-assisted Surgery. | Mobarakol Islam, Vibashan VS, Hongliang Ren |
| 2020 | MICCAI | Learning and Reasoning with the Graph Structure Representation in Robotic Surgery. | Mobarakol Islam, Seenivasan Lalithkumar, Lim Chwee Ming, Hongliang Ren |
| 2020 | MICCAI | Radiogenomics of Glioblastoma: Identification of Radiomics Associated with Molecular Subtypes. | Navodini Wijethilake, Mobarakol Islam, Dulani Meedeniya, Charith Chitraranjan, Indika Perera, Hongliang Ren |
| 2019 | MICCAI | Learning Where to Look While Tracking Instruments in Robot-Assisted Surgery. | Mobarakol Islam, Yueyuan Li, Hongliang Ren |
| 2018 | CVPR | Endoscope Navigation and 3D Reconstruction of Oral Cavity by Visual SLAM With Mitigated Data Scarcity. | Liang Qiu, Hongliang Ren |
| 2018 | ICRA | Estimation of Object Orientation Using Conductive Ink and Fabric Based Multilayered Tactile Sensor. | Godwin Ponraj, Hongliang Ren |
| 2018 | MICCAI | Glioma Prognosis: Segmentation of the Tumor and Survival Prediction Using Shape, Geometric and Clinical Information. | Mobarakol Islam, V. Jeya Maria Jose, Hongliang Ren |
| 2018 | MICCAI | ICHNet: Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) Segmentation Using Deep Learning. | Mobarakol Islam, Parita Sanghani, Angela An Qi See, Michael Lucas James, Nicolas Kon Kam King, Hongliang Ren |
| 2018 | MICCAI | Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation Using Adversarial Learning. | Mobarakol Islam, N. Rajiv Vaidyanathan, V. Jeya Maria Jose, Hongliang Ren |
| 2017 | ICMLA | Semi-Automated Segmentation of Glioblastomas in Brain MRI Using Machine Learning Techniques. | Naomi Joseph, Parita Sanghani, Hongliang Ren |
| 2017 | IROS | TTRE: A new type of error to evaluate the accuracy of a paired-point rigid registration. | Zhe Min, Hongliang Ren, Max Q.-H. Meng |
| 2017 | ICVS | Open-Source Development of a Low-Cost Stereo-Endoscopy System for Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery. | Jia Xin Koh, Hongliang Ren |
| 2017 | MICCAI | Multi-modal PixelNet for Brain Tumor Segmentation. | Mobarakol Islam, Hongliang Ren |
| 2016 | CSCWD | Human-compliant body-attached soft robots towards automatic cooperative ultrasound imaging. | Hongliang Ren, Xiaoyi Gu, Koon Lin Tan |
| 2016 | IROS | Towards hybrid control of a flexible curvilinear surgical robot with visual/haptic guidance. | Liao Wu, Keyu Wu, Hongliang Ren |
| 2016 | ICRA | Automate surgical tasks for a flexible Serpentine Manipulator via learning actuation space trajectory from demonstration. | Wenjun Xu, Jie Chen, Henry Y. K. Lau, Hongliang Ren |
| 2015 | IROS | Minimum sweeping area motion planning for flexible serpentine surgical manipulator with kinematic constraints. | Yanjie Chen, Zheng Li, Wenjun Xu, Yaonan Wang, Hongliang Ren |
| 2015 | IROS | A novel constrained tendon-driven serpentine manipulator. | Zheng Li, Haoyong Yu, Hongliang Ren, Philip W. Y. Chiu, Ruxu Du |
| 2015 | IROS | Motion planning of continuum tubular robots based on centerlines extracted from statistical atlas. | Keyu Wu, Liao Wu, Hongliang Ren |
| 2015 | ICRA | Soft oral interventional rehabilitation robot based on low-profile soft pneumatic actuator. | Yi Sun, Chwee Ming Lim, Hee Hon Tan, Hongliang Ren |
| 2015 | ICRA | Distortion invariant joint-feature for visual tracking in catadioptric omnidirectional vision. | Yazhe Tang, Youfu Li, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Jun Luo, Hongliang Ren |
| 2015 | ISVC | Condition Monitoring for Image-Based Visual Servoing Using Kalman Filter. | Mien Van, Denglu Wu, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Hongliang Ren |
| 2014 | IROS | Towards simultaneous coordinate calibrations for cooperative multiple robots. | Jiaole Wang, Liao Wu, Max Q.-H. Meng, Hongliang Ren |
| 2013 | ICOST | Force Efficient Analysis of a Hybrid Magnetic Actuation System for Minimally Invasive Diagnostics and Interventions. | Jinji Sun, Hongliang Ren, Keyu Wu |
| 2012 | ICRA | Tubular Enhanced Geodesic Active Contours for continuum robot detection using 3D ultrasound. | Hongliang Ren, Pierre E. Dupont |
| 2011 | IROS | Detection of curved robots using 3D ultrasound. | Hongliang Ren, Nikolay V. Vasilyev, Pierre E. Dupont |
| 2009 | ICRA | Node localization during power adjustment in wireless sensor networks. | Hongliang Ren, Max Q.-H. Meng |
| 2006 | APWEB | System Architecture of a Body Area Network and Its Web Service Based Data Publishing. | Hongliang Ren, Max Q.-H. Meng, Xijun Chen, Haibin Sun, Bin Fan, Yawen Chan |
| 2006 | IROS | Investigating Network Optimization Approaches in Wireless Sensor Networks. | Hongliang Ren, Max Q.-H. Meng, Xijun Chen |
| 2006 | IROS | Wireless Assistive Sensor Networks for the Deaf. | Hongliang Ren, Max Q.-H. Meng, Xijun Chen |
| 2006 | Mobiquitous | Rate Control to Reduce Bioeffects in Wireless Biomedical Sensor Networks. | Hongliang Ren, Max Q.-H. Meng |
| 2006 | SECON | Bioeffects Control in Wireless Biomedical Sensor Networks. | Hongliang Ren, Max Q.-H. Meng |