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Fumio Sasazawa is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of medical robotics, ultrasound imaging, and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on minimally invasive surgical guidance systems. His work has made significant contributions to the field of robotic knee arthroscopy, where he has championed the use of ultrasound imaging as a real-time intraoperative guidance tool — addressing one of the central challenges of minimally invasive surgery: the loss of direct visual contact with the surgical site. Sasazawa's most impactful contributions center on deep learning-based image segmentation, particularly for femoral cartilage in ultrasound images. His seminal 2019 papers on ultrasound guidance in robotic procedures and automatic cartilage segmentation using Mask R-CNN and convolutional neural networks have collectively amassed over 150 citations, reflecting their broad influence across surgical robotics and computer-assisted intervention communities. His later work expanded these methods to incorporate Bayesian uncertainty estimation and 4D volumetric ultrasound atlases, pushing the boundaries toward fully autonomous robotic systems. Together, his body of research — spanning segmentation, image quality assessment, and joint atlas construction — lays critical groundwork for safer, AI-driven arthroscopic surgery.