Seminar 2008 05 07 Atlas-based

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CISST ERC Seminar
Atlas-based computer-assisted surgery

Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Time: 12:00pm
Place: CSEB B17 (Lunch will be served at 11:30am)

Speaker: Yoshinobu Sato
Osaka University
Title: Atlas-based computer-assisted surgery
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Abstract

Computer-assisted surgery typically consists of three stages: Segmentation of target organs from 3D medical images, surgical planning on the segmented organ models, and intraoperative navigation based on the segmented models and surgical plans. In this talk, atlas-based approaches are investigated in the three stages. Here, the atlas is regarded as prior information which is derived from statistical analysis of a number of datasets of segmented 3D organ models, 3D surgical plans, organ deformation vectors, and so on. In addition, clinical applications of endoscopic surgical navigation for urology and chest surgery are also presented.

Bio

Yoshinobu Sato received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Information and Computer Sciences from Osaka University, Japan in 1982, 1984, 1988 respectively. From 1988 to 1992, he was a Research Engineer at the NTT Human Interface Laboratories. In 1992, he joined the Division of Functional Diagnostic Imaging (currently the Division of Image Analysis) of Osaka University Medical School as a faculty member. From 1996 to 1997, he was a Research Fellow in the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is currently an Associate Professor at Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, where he is working on medical image analysis and computer-assisted surgery.