CFP

 

Motivation:

Robot-assisted surgery is a fast-growing field of research, one which has been bringing remarkable advantages to various fields of surgery, especially to the field of laparoscopy. These include elimination of tremor, motion scaling, enhanced visualization, and ergonomic control. However, microsurgery remains a vastly unexplored territory for robot-assisted systems despite the fact they can have an even greater impact here. At the same time, demand for new tools and platforms for enhanced surgical and patient outcomes is growing. One example is seem in the area of laryngology, which often involves very delicate operations on organs such as the vocal fold.

Objectives:

This half-day workshop will provide an overview of the current state-of-the-art in the field of robot-assisted laryngeal microsurgery, focusing specially on the laser phonomicrosurgery problem and on critical technological advancements needed in this area. The workshop is intended to provide an open platform for surgeons and engineers to discuss recent findings, major research issues and new research opportunities.

List of Topics:

• Current limitations and needs in robot-assisted microsurgery
• Surgical MEMS: Design and Control
• Multi-functional endoscopic systems for microsurgery
• Fluorescence imaging and real-time cancer tissue visualization
• Surgeon-robot interfaces for microsurgery
• Augmented reality for robot-assisted surgery
• Supervisory and assistive safety systems

Worshop Location:

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
Via Alvaro del Portillo 21
00128 Roma, Italy
Room R2

Program:

June 24th, 2012                                                                   Program

8:50	9:00	Welcome
9:00	9:20	Medical Robotics: Background, Today, and the Future!		Edward Grant	North Carolina State University, USA
9:20	9:35	Towards cognitive supervision in robot-assisted surgery		Loris Fichera	Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
9:35	9:55	Advantages and disadvantages of various types of surgery on vocal folds cancer: a user point of view		Laurent Tavernier	University Hospital of Besançon, Fance
9:55	10:10	Micromechanisms for laser phonosurgery: A Review of Actuators and Compliant Parts		Sergio Lescano	FEMTO-ST Institute, France
10:10	10:25	User interfaces in computer-assisted and robot-assisted surgery		Jesus Ortiz	Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
10:25	10:40	Break
10:40	11:00	State of art and future perspectives of laryngeal carcinoma surgery		Giorgio Peretti	Università degli Studi di Genova, Itaty
11:00	11:15	On-site Laser Phonomicrosurgery – Challenges for an endoscopic system design with integrated augmented reality		Andreas Schoob and Benjamin Munske	Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
11:15	11:30	Bidirectional translational research: an illustration with fluorescence diagnosis		Bruno Wacogne	University Hospital of Besançon, France
11:30	11:45	Toward Tumor Detection and Medical Images Segmentation Techniques		Giulio Dagnino	Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
11:45	12:00	Visual Servoing in Medical Robotics		Syed Zill-e- Hussnain	FEMTO-ST Institute, France

Organizers:

Leonardo Mattos	Nicolas Andreff
Advanced Robotics Dept.	AS2M
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia	FEMTO-ST / University of Franche-Comté
Genoa, Italy	Besançon, France
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