Planning Meeting for Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Computer-Aided Devices for Diagnosis and Surgical Intervention Systems

9520887 NNAJI该奖项为一项规划拨款提案提供资金，以研究在马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校建立计算机辅助诊断和外科干预系统计算机辅助设备行业/大学合作研究中心的可行性。医学影像诊断和手术干预系统是医生常用的技术。今天，还没有一种集成的成像技术可以同时显示骨骼和软组织的三维结构。医疗行业对智能成像系统的开发表现出了极大的兴趣，智能成像系统可以提供更逼真的器官、器官节段或器官组的三维显示。在典型的整形手术中，医生通常手动进行手术。当需要皮肤移植或皮瓣来重建受损区域时，外科医生必须估计确保重建成功所需的组织的轮廓、面积和体积。工程师和科学家开发的CAD/CAM和Robotics技术是开发下一代手术介入系统的非常有用的工具。基于几何推理的CAD/CAM技术，可用于估计受损区域的精确尺寸，并将从身体另一部分提取的皮肤和组织部分进行匹配。机器人技术可以集成到外科手术的自适应控制和感知中。为行业成员提出的研究项目对于设想中心的考虑是；1)手术虚拟现实机器，2)传感器设备手术刀，3)计算机辅助医学成像仪(CAM成像仪)，4)使用激光的脊柱曲率分析仪，5)自动烧伤清创，6)自动妊娠胎记治疗，7)精确复制组织缺损的重现，8)自动组织扩张，9)烧伤重建计划器，10)组织工程，11)电荷耦合装置(CCD)在小视野数字乳房摄影中的应用，12)放射科医生在检测乳腺癌微钙化先兆方面的诊断辅助，13)数字乳房摄影盒式磁带，14)用于改进活检、组织工程的数字乳腺标本射线照相和15)立体乳腺摄影系统的原型。首席调查员/中心主任是该领域公认的权威，并组建了一个由来自马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校和布里格姆妇女医院(哈佛医学院的教学附属机构)的研究人员组成的跨学科研究团队。1995年1月20日，与感兴趣的公司举行了一次规划会议。项目经理建议马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校获得1万美元的奖励，用于开展一项计划活动。

9520887 Nnaji This award is providing funding for a planning grant proposal to study the feasibility of establishing an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Computer-Aided Devices for Diagnosis and Surgical Intervention Systems at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Medical imaging diagnosis and surgical intervention systems are common technologies for doctors. Today, there is no integrated imaging technologies that can present both the bone and soft tissue structure in three dimensions. Medical industries have shown a great interests in the development of intelligent imaging systems that can provide more realistic, three-dimensional presentations of organs, segments of organs or groups of organs. In a typical plastic surgery, doctors normally perform the operations manually. When a skin graft or flap is necessary for reconstruction of a damaged area, the surgeon must estimate the contour, area, and volume of the tissue required to ensure success of the reconstruction. CAD/CAM and Robotics technologies developed by engineers and scientists are very useful tools to develop the next generation surgical intervention system. CAD/CAM technology based on geometric reasoning that can be employed to estimate precise dimensions of damaged areas and match skin and tissue portions to be extracted from another part of the body. Robotics technology can be integrated in controlling and sensing the surgical operations adaptively. Research projects proposed for industrial members consideration for the envisioned Center are; 1) a Surgical Virtual Reality Machine, 2) A Sensor Equipment Scalpel, 3) Computer Aided Medical Imager (CAM Imager), 4) Spine Curvature Analyzer Using Laser, 5) Automated Burn Debridement, 6) Automated Congential Birthmark Treatment, 7) Recreation of Exact Duplicate Tissue Defects, 8) Automation Tissue Expansion, 9) Planner for Burn Reconstruction, 10) Tissue Engineering, 11) Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) application in Small - Field Digital Mammography, 12) Radiologist's Diagnostic Aid in Detection of Microcalcification Precursors of Breast Cancer, 13) Digital Mammographic Cassette, 14) Digital Breast Specimen Radiography for Improved Biopsy, and 15) Prototype of a Stereoscopic Mammography System. The Principal Investigator/Center Director is a recognized authority in his field and has assembled an interdisciplinary research team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Brigham and Woman's Hospital (a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School). A planning meeting with interested companies was held on January 20, 1995. The Program Manager recommends the University of Massachusetts at Amherst be awarded $10,000 for one year to conduct a planning activity.