Collaboration:AIST

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Abstract

The objective of this study is to develop software and hardware platform to perform robot-assisted surgery in the intelligent operating room. We have formulated three specific goals for AIST-BWH core: 1) design extensions to open-source software 3D Slicer to support the handling, fusion, and display of massive multi-modality data for image guided surgery of brain tumor, 2) develop versatile and portable inter-device communication mechanism for robotics surgery system, 3) develop open-source software engineering mechanism for project-side development, 4) validate planned extensions through use-case scenario evaluations and phantom data that simulate multi-modality image guided brain tumor surgery.

This joint venture between AIST and BWH is part of Intelligent Surgical Instruments Project sponsored by METI, Japan.

Press Release from METI (Japanese)

The original RFA issued by METI specifically requested the grantee employs open-source software engineering for development. RFA (Japanese)

Grant #

N/A

Key Institutions

Consortium

• Nagoya Institute of Technology
• Naogya University
• AIST with Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Tokyo University
• Terumo, Co.
• Olympus, Co.
• Kyusyu University
• Jikei University
• Sinsyu University

Key personnel

AIST/BWH core

• NA-MIC representative: Ron Kikinis
• NCIGT representative: Nobuhiko Hata, Haying Liu
• Other: Junichi Tokuda, Nobuyuki Nakajima

NA-MIC related Projects

1. VTK-MIST
2. GPU-IGT
3. Robot engineering
4. Slicer IGT
5. Flight recorder

Publications

1. Lesniak J, Tokuda J, Kikinis R, Burghart C, Hata N. A device guidance method for organ motion compensation in MRI-guided therapy. Phys. Med. Biol. 2007 Nov;52(21):6427-38. PDF
2. Pace D, Kikinis R, Hata N. An accessible, hands-on tutorial system for image-guided therapy and medical robotics using a robot and open-source software. Workshop on Open-Source and Open-Data for MICCAI at the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2007, pp. 122-141, 2007. PDF
3. Hata N, Piper S, Jolesz F, Tempany C, Black P, Morikawa S, Iseki H, Hashizume M, Kikinis R. Application of Open Source Image Guided Therapy Software in MR-guided Therapies. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2007, LNCS 4791, pp. 491-498, 2007. PDF