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

9731748泰勒该奖项由计算机集成外科系统与技术工程研究中心(CSST)发起。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、麻省理工学院和布里格姆妇女医院合作。根据一项新的合作协议，该奖项为头五年的努力提供资金，潜在期限为十年。ERC的愿景是推进所需的知识和技术，以开发21世纪的新一代微创手术技术，这将极大地影响美国的医疗保健，并产生重大的经济和社会影响。对这一愿景至关重要的是两个核心概念：1)计算机辅助手术计划/计算机辅助手术执行系统将整合准确的针对患者的模型，手术计划优化使计划得以准确、安全地实施，并将侵入性降至最低；2)外科辅助系统将与外科医生合作，实施精确和微创的手术程序。该中心的研究项目是多学科的，旨在促进外科系统的建模和分析以及接口技术等核心技术的根本性进步。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，促进多外科试验床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对工程师、科学家和临床医生的培训，以推进这项工作的所有阶段，从基础研究到部署系统。从业者和业界将积极参与该中心的工作。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提供支持。该奖项是根据ERC计划公告(NSF 97-5)参加1997-98财年工程研究中心竞赛的ERC预提案的结果。

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.