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Juan Wachs

8 accepted papers

2026

Automated Unified Reasoning with Vision-Language Models for Multi-modal Burn Assessment

AAAI 2026technical

In emerging clinical applications such as ultrasound-based burn assessment, the lack of domain-specific data presents a significant challenge for developing robust AI systems. Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance in general computer vision tasks, yet their application to medic

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Trauma THOMPSON: A Dataset and Realistic Generative Framework for AI Copilots in Emergency Care

AAAI 2026technical

We introduce Trauma THOMPSON, a dataset and suite of benchmarks designed to accelerate the development of AI-powered copilots for real-time decision-making in emergency and resource-limited medical settings. This work proposes a method to address a critical bottleneck for future deployment: models t

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

Robotic Sonographer: Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound using Domain Expertise in Bayesian Optimization

ICRA 2023poster

Ultrasound is a vital imaging modality utilized for a variety of diagnostic and interventional procedures. However, an expert sonographer is required to make accurate maneuvers of the probe over the human body while making sense of the ultrasound images for diagnostic purposes. This procedure requir…

Cited by 15SourceScholar
2021

DESERTS: DElay-tolerant SEmi-autonomous Robot Teleoperation for Surgery

ICRA 2021poster

Telesurgery can be hindered by high-latency and low-bandwidth communication networks, often found in austere settings. Even delays of less than one second are known to negatively impact surgeries. To tackle the effects of connectivity associated with telerobotic surgeries, we propose the DESERTS fra…

Cited by 31SourceScholar
2021

Learning Multimodal Contact-Rich Skills from Demonstrations Without Reward Engineering

ICRA 2021poster

Everyday contact-rich tasks, such as peeling, cleaning, and writing, demand multimodal perception for effective and precise task execution. However, these present a novel challenge to robots as they lack the ability to combine these multimodal stimuli for performing contact-rich tasks. Learning-base…

Cited by 12SourceScholar
2019

DESK: A Robotic Activity Dataset for Dexterous Surgical Skills Transfer to Medical Robots

IROS 2019poster

Datasets are an essential component for training effective machine learning models. In particular, surgical robotic datasets have been key to many advances in semi-autonomous surgeries, skill assessment, and training. Simulated surgical environments can enhance the data collection process by making…

Cited by 38SourcecodeScholar
2016

Multi-target detection and tracking from a single camera in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

IROS 2016poster

Despite the recent flight control regulations, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are still gaining popularity in civilian and military applications, as much as for personal use. Such emerging interest is pushing the development of effective collision avoidance systems. Such systems play a critical rol…

Cited by 164SourceScholar