View source for 2014 Summer Project Week:Software Platform for Robotic Surgery

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Image:raven.png|Raven
Image:storyBoard.png|Navigation System
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==Key Investigators==
*Yangming Li, Blake Hannaford, Biorobotics Lab., University of Washington

==Project Description==
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<h3>Objective</h3>
*Build a navigation system for the Raven robot, which is a 7-DOF cable-actuated surgical manipulator designed for use in either MIS or open surgery.
*Build the map through the fusion of CT, MRI scans and surgeons’ diagnoses.
*Automatically search the optimal path for the surgical robot. 
*Provide a user-friendly interface for surgeons' supervision on the surgical robot's behavior.
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<h3>Approach, Plan</h3>
*Learn about the capabilities of 3D Slicer, OpenIGTLink, tissue-labeling, and registration in the context of skull base surgery.

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<h3>Progress</h3>
*Know the capabilities of 3D Slicer.
*Understand how to communicate between hardware and 3D slicer.
*Know some of the cutting-edge techniques on the segmentation and registration problems.
*Found the possible solutions to our problems, 3D Slicer and other awesome tools, such as freesurfer, fsl, Brainstools, bet, bse, robex and more. 
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