Presentations | Publications

Presented at Accès vasculaires en HD à domicile in Paris, France. September 2025
L. Petersen, J. Bible, A. Kshirsagar, L. Sierad, R. Singapogu. "Examining the Efficacy of an Improved CanSim for Quantifying Hemodialysis Cannulation Skills." Healthcare and Medical Devices. AHFE (2025) International Conference. 2025; 171:32-38. doi: 10.54941/ahfe1006188.
Presented at VASA in St. Louis, MO. May 2025

Demonstrated at Clinics associated with University of North Carolina - Raleigh, December 2024
Demonstrated at clinics in Tucson, AZ and Dallas, TX. June 2024
Invited to show CanSim at the American Society of Diagnostics and Nephrology (ASDIN) Annual Scientific Meeting in February, 2024.

Z. Liu, D. Hitchcock and R. Singapogu, "Cannulation Skill Assessment Using Functional Data Analysis," IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 27, no. 9, pp. 4512-4523, Sept. 2023, doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2023.3283188.
Z. Zhang, L. Petersen, J. Bible, J. Geissler, P. Roy-Chaudhury, D. Brouwer-Maier, R. Singapogu, "Needle Angle Matters: An Investigation of the Effect of Needle Angle on Hemodialysis Cannulation Skill," Kidney360, 4(7):p 962-970, July 2023, doi: 10.34067/KID.0000000000000163
Z. Liu, J. Bible, L. Petersen, Z. Zhang, P. Roy-Chaudhury and R. Singapogu, "Relating Process and Outcome Metrics for Meaningful and Interpretable Cannulation Skill Assessment: A Machine Learning Paradigm," Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 236, Jun. 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2023.107429.
Invited speaker at the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN) in February, 2023.

L Petersen, Z Liu, J Bible, D Shukla, R Singapogu, “Simulator-Based Metrics for Quantifying Vascular Palpation Skill for Cannulation,” IEEE Access. 2022;10:66862-66873., Jun. 2022. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3184303

Z. Liu, J. Bible, L. Petersen, P. Roy-Chaudhury, J. Geissler, D. Brouwer-Maier, and R. Singapogu, “Measuring Cannulation Skills for Hemodialysis: Objective versus Subjective Assessment", Frontiers in Medicine, vol. 8, p. 2291, 2021, doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.777186.
S. P. Singh, J. Bible, Z. Liu, Z. Zhang, and R. Singapogu, "Motion Smoothness Metrics for Cannulation Skill Assessment: What Factors Matter?," Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 8, p. 625003, Apr. 2021, doi: 10.3389/frobt.2021.625003.
R. Singapogu, A. Chowdhury, P. Roy-Chaudhury, and D. Brouwer-Maier, “Simulator-based hemodialysis cannulation skills training: a new horizon?,” Clinical Kidney Journal, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 465-470, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1093/ckj/sfaa206.
Z. Liu, Z. Zhang, D. Kunkel, P. Roy-Chaudhury, and R. Singapogu, “Is Experience in Hemodialysis Cannulation Related to Expertise? A Metrics-based Investigation for Skills Assessment,” Annals Biomedical Engineering, Jan. 2021. doi: 10.1007/s10439-020-02708-5.

Z. Liu, J. Bible, J. Wells, D. Vadivalagan, and R. Singapogu, "Examining the Effect of Haptic Factors for Vascular Palpation Skill Assessment Using an Affordable Simulator," IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, vol. 1, pp. 228-234, Aug. 2020, doi: 10.1109/OJEMB.2020.3017156.
Z. Liu, L. Petersen, Z. Zhang, and R. Singapogu, "A Method for Segmenting the Process of Needle Insertion during Simulated Cannulation using Sensor Data," 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020, pp. 6090-6094, doi: 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176158.

J. Gao, I. Kil, R. E. Groff and R. B. Singapogu, "Automatic Detection of Needle Puncture in a Simulated Cannulation Task," 2019 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISMR.2019.8710181.
Z. Zhang, Z. Liu, and R. Singapogu, "Extracting Subtask-specific Metrics Toward Objective Assessment of Needle Insertion Skill for Hemodialysis Cannulation,” Journal of Medical Robotics Research, vol. 4, no. 03n04, Sep. and Dec. 2019, doi: 10.1142/S2424905X19420066.
Presented an early prototype of CanSim at the 2019 VASA Hands-On Practicum on Hemodialysis Access in May, 2019.