Seminar 2007 12 12 Biomanipulation

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CISST ERC Seminar
Applications of Computing and Vision in Surgery and Biomanipulation

Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Time: 12:00pm
Place: CSEB B17 (Lunch will be served 11:30am)

Speaker: Rajesh Kumar, Ph.D
Johns Hopkins
Title: Applications of Computing and Vision in Surgery and Biomanipulation
Presentation: PDF, not yet uploaded

Abstract

Clinical training for the robotic surgery follows the established mentoring and proctoring practices of traditional laparoscopic surgery. The current surgical robot architecture (primarily Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci family) consists of a surgical console with master manipulators, and set of patient side slave manipulators. These highly integrated systems can be modified to support effective immersive and hands-on training methods that open novel avenues for robotic surgery training. We discuss the development of one such architecture and also briefly touch on its use for some simple collaborative tasks.

Bio

Rajesh Kumar received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. His thesis and research included work on task-level augmentation using "Steady hand" manipulation. Dr. Kumar worked at Foster-Miller,Inc. and Intuitive Surgical, Inc on research problems in vision and robotics before returning to the department of computer science in 2007 as a assistant research professor. His current research interests include applications of vision and robotics in medicine, surgery, and biomanipulation.