Image Guided Intervention and Robotic Surgery

By integrating therapeutic tools and techniques with pre-operative and intra-operative imaging, patient-specific information such as the location of internal structures and pathologies can be used for effective planning and surgical guidance. Robotics surgery is a further extension to minimally invasive surgery, which aims to replace the manipulation and sensation capabilities of the surgeon that were lost in conventional minimally invasive surgery. Some of the key research challenges to be addressed include real-time tracking of instruments in minimal invasive surgical procedures, development of 3D navigation and guidance based on pre-operative and intra-operative imaging, and gaze contingent motion compensation of soft tissue deformation.