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| Surgical robotics |
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Robotics enables surgery to be less invasive and/or to enhance
the performance of the surgeon. In minimally invasive surgery
(MIS), robotics can improve the dexterity of conventional instruments,
which is restricted by the insertion ports, by adding intra-cavity
degrees of freedom. It can also provide the surgeon with augmented
visual and haptic inputs. In open surgery, robotics makes it
possible to use in real time pre-operative and per-operative
images to improve precision and reproducibility when cutting,
drilling, milling bones, to locate accurately and remove tumours…
In both cases, robotics allows the surgeon to perform more precise,
reproducible and dextrous motion. It is also a promising solution
to minimize his fatigue and to restrict his exposition to radiation.
For the patient, robotics surgery may result in less risk, pain
and discomfort, as well as a shorter recovery time. These benefits
explain the increasing research efforts made all over the world
since the early 90’s.
Surgical robotics requires great skills in many engineering
fields as the integration of robots in the operating room is
technically difficult. It induces new problems such as safety,
man-machine cooperation, real time sensing and processing, mechanical
design, force and vision-based control… However, it is
very promising as a mean to improve conventional surgical procedures,
for example in neurosurgery and orthopedics, as well as providing
innovative new ones in MIS, micro-surgery or image-guided therapy.
The highly interdisciplinary nature of surgical robotics requires
close cooperation between medical staff and researchers in mechanics,
computer technology, control and electrical engineering. This
cooperation has resulted in many prototypes for a wide variety
of surgical procedures. A few robotics systems are yet available
on a commercial basis and have entered the operating room namely
in neurosurgery, orthopedics and MIS.
Depending on the application, surgical robotics gets more or
less deeply into the following fields: multi-modal information
processing; modelling of rigid and deformable anatomical parts;
pre-surgical planning and simulation of robotic interventions;
design and control of guiding systems for assistance of the
surgeon gesture. These fields will be addressed by surgeons
and researchers working in leading hospitals and labs. They
will be completed by engineers who will give insight into practical
integration problems.
This course is addressed to PhD students, post-docs and researchers
already involved in the area or interested by the new challenges
of such an emerging area interconnecting technology and surgery.
Basic background in mechanical, computer science, control and
electrical engineering is recommended.
This Summer School follows two previous editions held in 2003
and 2005, also in Montpellier, which had been considered as
a success by both the participants and the lecturers (http://www.lirmm.fr/manifs/UEE/accueil.htm
and http://www.lirmm.fr/UEE05/). |
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The lectures will be organized in four parts:
- Fundamental aspects of surgical robotics (2.5 days): medical
imaging, modelling, control, design and safety, planning and
registration, haptics;
- Applications (2 days): technical point of view (from design
to experiment), and surgical point of view (orthopedics, neurosurgery,
cardiovascular surgery, abdominal surgery);
- Industrial point of view (1 day) with exhibition of equipments,
presentations of applications, and demonstrations; visit of
the LIRMM;
- Future trends (1 day): perspectives in small size robots and
mechatronic devices for surgery and therapy; perspectives in
rehabilitation robotics.
Time will be reserved for the participants to present their
own research work. |
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| Lectures and school materials |
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| All lectures will be given in English. Copies of the lecturers'
slides will be available at the time of the class. All the School
material (including slides of students' presentations) will
be available at the end of September on the website of the LIRMM
together with copies of significant papers of the lecturers
as well as videos. |
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| ECTS |
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| The 36-hour courses of the Summer University will be recognized
by the Doctoral School on Information, Systems and Structure
(I2S) of the University of Montpellier II (a Doctoral School
in the French Universities manages the Ph.D. degree). 5 ECTS
credit points will be awarded to student attendees. |
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| Accommodation |
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| The lectures will be given in the "Centre Régional
de Documentation Pédagogique", which is located
downtown Montpellier (see map on http://www.lirmm.fr/UEE07/).
For convenience, the exhibition and demos will be organized
within the experimental facilities of LIRMM. The students will
be housed in apartments shared by two or three of them, in the
residence “Les Citadines – Antigone”, at walking
distance from CRDP. |
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| Admission |
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The number of participants is restricted to 40. Priority
will be given to Ph.D. students and Post-docs from the European
Community but a limited number of researchers and professionals,
as well as students from extra-EC countries will be accepted.
Applicants must fill the application form (available at http://www.lirmm.fr/UEE07)
by June 15th, 2007. A scientific committee will select the candidates.
A letter of confirmation will be sent to accepted participants.
The lodging expenses will be partially supported by the organizers
depending on funding, the complement being provided by the participants.
The travel will be at the participant own expenses. The organizers
will offer the lunches, as well as the welcome and closing receptions,
and the sightseeing tour.
For further administrative information, please contact:
- Céline Berger, LIRMM, berger@lirmm.fr
For further scientific information, please contact:
- Etienne Dombre, LIRMM, dombre@lirmm.fr
or
- Philippe Poignet, LIRMM, poignet@lirmm.fr
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