North-American School on Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Interventional Systems (NAS MR/CIIS)

A.项目概述愿景-本提案的目标是利用和联合收割机我们在生物医学导向工程，机器人和临床干预的教育和研究优势，以发展医疗机器人和计算机集成介入系统（NAS MR/CIIS）的北美学校。MR/CIIS作为一个研究领域，需要独特的跨学科培训，包括工程，物理，医学和生物科学的元素。我们建议建立一个冬季学校，为博士前学生，博士后和MR/CIIS的高级新来者提供工具，以了解并为计算机集成医疗技术和临床干预的不断扩大领域做出贡献。我们将提供教程，项目和研究机会，概念化，设计和开发计算传感，信息处理和机器人系统的医疗干预。NAS MR/CIIS的一个显著特点是，它将提供设计系统的技术，包括计算模型/数据和介入技术。从广泛的角度来看，学校的目标是通过提供一个结合工程和临床医学的短期课程来促进MR/CIIS领域的发展。这一建议中的智力挑战来自于向大量人口提供更有效、更精确和高度专业化的医疗服务，同时控制其成本这一近乎矛盾的要求。在过去的十年里，我们看到各个制造部门的计算机化和自动化以更低的成本生产出更高质量和精密的产品。MR/CIIS提供与医学相似的益处？即通过机器人技术实现临床任务的计算机化和（半）自动化。如果没有在计算成像和传感、信息提取和可视化、自动化指导和协助、有效的人机交互以及准确的在线评估和反馈方面的重大技术教育、研究和创新，这是不可能的。约翰霍普金斯大学及其在NSF ERC计算机集成手术系统和技术（CISST）的合作伙伴非常适合在这个问题上取得重大进展，因为强大的工程团队已经在许多这些系统上工作，一流的医疗机构和临床医生愿意合作和使用这些技术。因此，NAS MR/CIIS将利用现有的专业知识和设施，增加能够轻松回答上述系统的技术问题的人员数量，同时充分了解其临床意义。根据定义，NAS MR/CIIS是一个具有深远影响的教育计划。学校的目标是促进MR/CIIS领域的发展。参与者将有一个加速的研究生产力的路径。需要加快这一进程，以应对婴儿潮一代老龄化对医疗干预的预期需求增加。增加该领域研究人员的数量将增加全社会的技术创新和部署。该计划参与者的多样性将受益于我们在招聘和保留妇女和少数民族到我们的ERC CISST的丰富经验。我们与该地区的LSAMP和McNair计划建立了关系来招募参与者。我们还将针对HBCUs和其他少数民族服务机构，在其机构举办MR/CIIS研讨会，以引起对该领域的兴趣。我们已经与一些HBCU建立了联系，如摩根州立大学和霍华德大学。我们还计划使用我们的重要K？12次外展联络，邀请两名教师参加在美国举行的NAS MR/CIIS。为了最大限度地提高参与的好处，并帮助知识转移到他们的教室，每个老师将与学校的领导者之一配对作为学员。我们将开发一个门户网站，由计算机集成外科学生研究会（CISSRS）管理，通过博客传播MR/CIIS材料，并正式建立社区。关键词？冬季学校，医疗机器人，计算机集成手术

A. PROJECT SUMMARYVision - The goal of this proposal is to leverage and combine our education and research strengths in biomedically oriented engineering, robotics and clinical intervention to develop the North American School in Medical Robotics and Computer Integrated Interventional System (NAS MR/CIIS). MR/CIIS, as a field of study, requires unique cross-disciplinary training that encompasses elements of engineering, physical, medical, and biological sciences. We propose to develop an Winter School that will provide pre-doctoral students, post-docs and senior new-comers to MR/CIIS the tools to understand and contribute to the expanding field of computer integrated medical technologies and clinical interventions. We will provide tutorials, projects and research opportunities to conceptualize, design and develop computational sensing, information processing and robotics systems for medical interventions. A distinguishing feature of the NAS MR/CIIS is that it will provide exposure to techniques for designing systems that include both computational models/data and interventional technologies. From a broad perspective, the goal of the School is to foster the growth the field of MR/CIIS by providing a short course that marries engineering and clinical medicine.Intellectual Merit ? The intellectual challenge in this proposal emerges from the near contradictory requirement to deliver more effective, more precise and highly specialized medical care to a large population, while containing its cost. In the past decade we have seen computerization and automation of various manufacturing sectors producing higher quality, and exquisitely precise products at much lower costs. MR/CIIS offer similar benefits to medicine ? i.e. the computerization and (semi-)automation, through robotics, of the performance of clinical tasks. This is not possible without significant technological education, research and innovation in computational imaging and sensing, information extraction and visualization, automated guidance and assistance, efficient human-computer interaction and accurate on-line assessment and feedback. Johns Hopkins University and its partners in the NSF ERC on Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (CISST) are ideally situated to make significant inroads on this problem because of strong engineering teams already working on many of these systems, premiere medical institutions and clinicians willing to collaborate and use these technologies. Hence, the NAS MR/CIIS will capitalize on existing expertise and facilities, to increase the number of individuals who can comfortably answer the technical questions for the above systems, while fully understanding their clinical implications.Broader Impact ? The NAS MR/CIIS is by definition an educational program with far reaching implications. The goal of the School is to promote the growth of the field of MR/CIIS. Participants will have an accelerated path to research productivity. This acceleration is required to address the expected increase demand for medical interventions by the aging baby-boomers. Increasing the number of researchers in the field will increase technological innovation and deployment society-wide. The diversity of the participants in the program will benefit from our substantial experience in the recruiting and retention of women and minorities into our ERC CISST. We have relationships with LSAMPs and McNair programs in the area to recruit participants. We will also target HBCUs and other minority serving institutions by presenting MR/CIIS seminars at their institutions to generate interest in the field. We already have ties with some HBCUs, such as Morgan State and Howard Universities. We plan to also use our significant K ? 12 outreach contacts to invite two teachers to the NAS MR/CIIS staged in the US. To maximize the benefit of participation and to help transfer knowledge to their classrooms, each teacher will be paired with one of the leaders of the School as a mentee. We will develop a web portal, to be managed by the Computer Integrated Surgery Student Research Society (CISSRS), to disseminate MR/CIIS material, for discourse through Blogs, and to formally establish the community.Key Words ? Winter School, Medical Robotics, Computer Integrated Surgery