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

小行星9731748 该奖项启动了计算机集成手术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与卡内基梅隆大学和沙迪赛德医院以及马萨诸塞州理工学院和布里格姆妇女医院合作。 该奖项为新合作协议下的前五年努力提供资金，可能持续十年。 ERC的愿景是推进知识和技术的发展，为21世纪世纪开发新一代微创手术技术，这将大大影响美国的医疗保健，产生巨大的经济和社会影响。 该愿景的关键是两个核心概念：1）计算机辅助手术计划/计算机辅助手术执行系统将集成准确的患者特定模型，手术计划优化允许准确，安全和微创地执行计划; 2）手术辅助系统将与外科医生合作执行精确和微创的手术程序。 该中心的研究计划是多学科的，旨在为手术系统的建模和分析以及界面技术的核心技术产生根本性的进步。 这些将被集成到一个强大的，模块化的系统和子系统系列中，促进多手术试验台应用的快速原型制作，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，以推进从基础研究到部署系统的所有阶段的工作。 从业人员和行业将积极参与该中心。 NSF的资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的预提案在1997-98财政年度工程研究中心竞赛中根据ERC计划公告NSF 97-5参赛的结果。

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.