International: A US-Germany Research Collaboration on Systems for Computer-Integrated Healthcare

计算机集成医学（CIM）是一个新的和快速增长的领域，具有很高的全球吸引力。CIM的工作是跨国和跨学科的。因此，国际研究交流对于创建最先进的CIM系统至关重要，该项目的目标是在慕尼黑工业大学（TUM）信息科学与健康研究生院（GSISH）和约翰霍普金斯大学（JHU）之间建立一个关于计算机集成医学（CIM）的双边国际研究交流项目。计算机集成手术系统和技术中心（CISST-ERC）。我们的愿景是开发一个联合研究和教育活动，将团队研究项目与以群体为中心的教育和有组织的文化和社会化体验相结合，从而在我们的机构之间建立一个广泛而长期的合作研究计划。TUM和JHU都是CIM的国家领导者，拥有跨越各自大陆的研究合作网络。 拟议的IRES支持将提供？缺失的一环在我们现有的教师互动和单方面的学生交流中，将两个机构的网络结合成一个更大的跨大西洋网络，更加系统和可持续。我们已经开发了交流，专注于为学生提供创新的教育和研究指导环境的队列体验的发展。我们的合作将集中在四个研究项目，利用JHU和TUM的内在协同作用。它们是：1）自动手术技能建模和工作流程分析; 2）用于高级手术可视化的视频重建和配准; 3）用于信息增强手术的软件系统;以及4）用于显微手术的医疗机器人设备和系统。每个项目都由TUM和JHU教师领导，并利用每个机构的互补技能。我们的项目将强调研究网络的发展，学生将能够在交流结束后利用，从而实现长期的国际合作。该项目由美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室（OISE）、美国国家科学基金会计算机信息科学与工程理事会（CISE）、信息与智能系统分部（IIS）和鲁棒智能分部（RI）共同支持。

Computer-Integrated Medicine (CIM) is a new and rapidly growing area with high global appeal. Work in CIM is multi-national and inter-disciplinary. International research exchange is thus essential in creating state-of-the-art CIM systems, and in supporting CIM research programs.The goal of this International Research Experiences for Students project is to create a bilateral international research exchange program on computer-integrated medicine (CIM) between the Technical University of Munich (TUM) Graduate School in Information Science and Health (GSISH) and the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (CISST-ERC). Our vision is to develop a joint research and education activity that merges team research projects with cohort-focused education and organized cultural and socialization experiences, thereby creating a wide-ranging and long-term collaborative research program between our institutions. Both the TUM and JHU are national leaders in CIM, with networks of research collaborations that span their respective continents. The proposed IRES support will provide the ?missing link? in our existing faculty interactions and unilateral student exchange, to bind the networks of the two institutions into one larger transatlantic network on a more systematic and sustainable level. We have developed the exchange to focus on the development of a cohort experience for students with an innovative educational and research mentoring environment. Our collaboration will focus on four research projects that exploit the inherent synergies of JHU and TUM. They are: 1) Automated surgical skill modeling and workflow analysis; 2) Video reconstruction and registration for advanced surgical visualization; 3) Software systems for information-enhanced surgery; and 4) Medical robotics devices and systems for microsurgery. Each of these projects is led by both TUM and JHU faculty, and takes advantage of complementary skills at each institution. Our project will emphasize the development of research networks that the students will be able to take advantage of after the exchange ends, leading to long-term international cooperation. The focus on graduate students in the exchange provides a longer time horizon for the networks, and the eventual inclusion of undergraduates in the exchange will cement the transatlantic research community in this growing area of important interdisciplinary research.This project is supported by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) and the NSF Directorate for Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Divisions of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) and Robust Intelligence (RI).