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

答：SUMMARYVision项目-该计划的目标是利用和结合我们在面向生物医学的工程、机器人和临床干预方面的教育和研究优势，发展北美医疗机器人和计算机集成干预系统学院(NAS MR/CIIS)。作为一个研究领域，MR/CIIS需要独特的跨学科培训，包括工程、物理、医学和生物科学的要素。我们建议开发一个冬季学校，为MR/CIIS的博士后、博士后和高级新人提供工具，了解并促进不断扩大的计算机集成医疗技术和临床干预领域。我们将提供教程、项目和研究机会，以概念化、设计和开发医疗干预的计算传感、信息处理和机器人系统。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/数据和干预技术。从广泛的角度来看，该学院的目标是通过提供结合工程和临床医学的短期课程来促进MR/CIIS领域的发展。这项提案中的智力挑战出现在几乎相互矛盾的要求上，即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。在过去的十年里，我们看到了各种制造业的计算机化和自动化，以低得多的成本生产出质量更高、精度更高的产品。MR/CIIS是否提供与医学类似的好处？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进行重大的技术教育、研究和创新，这是不可能的。约翰霍普金斯大学及其在NSF计算机集成外科系统与技术(CSST)ERC中的合作伙伴处于理想的位置，可以在这个问题上取得重大进展，因为已经有强大的工程团队在其中许多系统上工作，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数，同时充分了解它们的临床含义。NAS MR/CIIS的定义是一个具有深远影响的教育项目。该学院的目标是促进MR/CIIS领域的发展。参与者将有一条更快的研究效率之路。这一加速是为了满足婴儿潮一代对医疗干预的预期增长需求。增加该领域的研究人员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募和保留妇女和少数族裔进入我们的ERC cisst方面的丰富经验。我们与该地区的LSAMP和McNair计划建立了关系，以招募参与者。我们还将针对HBCU和其他少数群体服务机构，在其机构举办MR/CIIS研讨会，以激发对该领域的兴趣。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。我们还计划利用我们重要的K？12外展联系人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效益，并帮助将知识转移到他们的课堂上，每位教师将与学校的一名领导人配对，作为受训者。我们将开发一个由计算机集成外科学生研究会(CISSRS)管理的门户网站，传播MR/CIIS材料，通过博客进行讨论，并正式建立社区。关键词？冬季学校，医疗机器人，计算机集成外科

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