Community Consensus Benchmarks for Medical Robots---Workshop CFP
A workshop on “Community Consensus Benchmarks and Systems for Clinical Translation of Medical Robots” will be held at the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), in Chicago, Illinois, on Thursday, September 18, 2014, 08:30 AM-06:00 PM.
"The workshop will focus
the discussion on the following four areas that we believe are key to advancing
the medical robotics research community and industry:
1) Community consensus methods to
quantitatively assess performance of new and existing medical device
technologies. Creation of community-shared data sets (e.g. the image processing community and the
Visible Human Project) to benchmark new methods in medical robotics;
2) Training and accreditation; safety and
risk-assessment; and community shared data sets for benchmarking performance of
human users;
3) Open research platforms, system
interoperability and synergistic technical tools (e.g. programming, hardware,
communication) that can benefit academia and industry alike for collaborative
medical system research and development.
4) Translational research challenges and
strategies for bringing medical devices from lab bench to clinical use.
This discussion is a
critical first step to allowing multiple stakeholders (academia and industry)
to identify suitable candidates, build consensus and translate
path-breaking/fast-evolving research advances into grounded sets of
best-practices/benchmarks and to assist the community in translating robotics
research into clinical use.
A white paper
will be developed based on the discussion at this information meeting - so
please come and share your thoughts, suggestions and opinions with us.
Attendance is free.
We solicit extended abstracts of two pages in IEEE
Conference format (including figures and references), containing novel work or
work in progress. Specific topics of
interest include, but are not limited to, the four areas (mentioned above) that
the workshop will be focused on. "
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