International study on advanced surgical technologies

微创手术是医学图像处理和机器人技术应用的一种新的外科治疗方法。在这种情况下，把握这一研究在世界范围内的意义和效果是非常重要的。三年来，我们对新型微创手术的研究情况进行了调查。我们得到的结果如下。1998年，我们主要在美国和中国进行调查。基本上，他们有相同的临床问题。他们开始注意到术中脑转移的重要性，这在日本被认为是一个重要的问题。1999年，我们与欧洲研究人员交换了信息，并审查了该领域的需求。他们重视人机界面的力反馈、器官的配准和变形、三维图像的可视化。2000年，我们调查了美国和欧洲的总体信息。一些手术机器人被用于临床。该领域的下一步研究是整合医学图像处理、配准等技术。另一方面，安全被认为是医疗机器人的基本问题

Minimally invasive surgery which is new surgical therapy applied by the medical image processing and robotics is widely spread. Considering this situation, it is important to grasp the meaning and effect of the study in the world. For three years, we have investigated the conditions of the studies about the new minimally invasive surgery. We obtained the result as follows.In 1998, we investigated mainly in the United States and in China. Basically, they had same clinical problems. They began to notice the importance of the intra-operative brain shift, which is recognized as the important problem in Japan.In 1999, we exchanged information with Europe researchers and reviewed needs of this field. They attached importance to a man-machine interface by force feedback, registration and deformation of organs, visualization by the three dimensional images.In 2000, we investigated overall information in USA and Europe. Some surgical robots were used clinically. And next step of the research of this field was to integrate all the technology such as medical image processing, registration and so on. On the other hand, safety was considered as basic problem of the medical robot