ERC: Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology

9731748 TAYLOR该奖项启动了计算机集成外科系统和技术工程研究中心（CISST）。牵头机构是约翰霍普金斯大学、卡内基梅隆大学、夏德赛德医院、麻省理工学院和布里格姆妇女医院。根据一项新的合作协议，这笔资金将用于前五年的工作，可能持续10年。ERC的愿景是推动知识和技术的发展，为21世纪开发新一代微创手术技术，这将极大地影响美国的医疗保健，收获巨大的经济和社会影响。对这一愿景至关重要的是两个核心概念：1)计算机辅助手术计划/计算机辅助手术执行系统将整合精确的患者特定模型，优化手术计划，使计划准确、安全、微创地执行；2)外科辅助系统将与外科医生合作，进行精确和微创的外科手术。该中心的研究项目是多学科的，旨在为外科系统的建模、分析和接口技术的核心技术产生根本性的进步。这些将集成到一个强大的、模块化的系统和子系统家族中，促进多手术试验台应用的快速原型设计，并促进在商业化系统中转移到最终用途。多学科教育计划将促进工程师、科学家和临床医生的培训，以推进这项工作的各个阶段，从基础研究到部署系统。从业者和行业将积极参与该中心。NSF基金将用于探索和推进这些概念所需的基础研究，临床工作将通过其他来源得到支持。该奖项是ERC在1997-98财年工程研究中心竞赛（ERC Program Announcement, NSF 97-5）中提交的预提案的结果。

9731748 TAYLOR This award initiates the Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (CISST). The lead institution is Johns Hopkins University in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and Shadyside Hospital, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham & Women's Hospital. The award funds the first five years of effort under a new cooperative agreement, with a potential duration of ten years. The vision of the ERC is to advance knowledge and technology needed to develop a new generation of minimally invasive surgery techniques for the 21st century, which will dramatically impact health care in the U.S., reaping substantial economic and social impacts. Critical to the vision are two core concepts: 1) Computer-assisted surgical planning/computer assisted surgical execution systems will integrate accurate patient-specific models, surgical plan optimization permitting the plans to be carried out accurately, safely, and with minimal invasiveness; 2) Surgical Assistant Systems will work cooperatively with surgeons in carrying out precise and minimally invasive surgical procedures. The center's research program is multidisciplinary and designed to produce fundamental advances in core technologies of modeling and analysis and interfacial technologies for surgical systems. These will be integrated into a robust, modular family of systems and subsystems promoting rapid prototyping of multi-surgical testbed applications, as well as facilitating transfer to end use within commercialized systems. A multidisciplinary educational program will facilitate the training of engineers, scientists, and clinicians to advance all phases of this work from basic research to deployed systems. Practitioners and industry will be actively involved in the center. NSF funds will be used for the fundamental research needed to explore and advance these concepts, clinical work will be supported through other sources. This award is the outcome of the entry of this ERC's preproposal in the FY 1997-98 Engineering Research Centers Competition under the ERC Program Announcement, NSF 97-5.