4th North American Summer School on Surgical Robotics

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"Minimally invasive surgery has the potential to reduce costs, decrease pain, and shorten hospital stays. Robotics, image-guided interventions, and surgical simulation are key technologies to achieve this potential, and have already formed a corpus of knowledge not available in a single school. The North American Summer School in Surgical Robotics is a biennial school established to bring this knowledge to graduate students and post-docs.  The lectures were given by internationally-renowned researchers, including several from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and West Penn Allegheny Health System. It was held from 21-25 July 2014 primarily on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University, it was organized by Dr. Cameron Riviere and Dr. Howie Choset."

• Russell Taylor, Johns Hopkins University, (MD) USA: Medical robotics and computer-integrated interventional medicine
• Simon DiMaio, Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (CA) USA: da Vinci and beyond
  Shared research platforms and frameworks-da Vinci Research Kit
• DVRK talk part 2 by Prof. Taylor
• Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy: Endoluminal surgical robotics
• Nabil Simaan, Vanderbilt University (TN) USA: Accelerated Research through MatlabForce and stiffness sensing and assistive telemanipulation in restrictive surgical environments
• Salih Abdelaziz, University of Montpellier, France: Robotic assistance in minimally invasive and endoluminal interventions
• Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena, Imperial College London, United Kingdom: Computer-and-robot-assisted orthopaedic surgery
• Blake Hannaford, University of Washington, (WA) USA: Analysis and Control Architecture for Semiautonomous Robotic Surgery; Telerobotic Surgery Research with the Raven Surgical System
• Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon, (PA) USA: Computer vision for medicine
• Allison Okamura, Stanford University, (CA) USA: Human-motor performance in robot-assisted surgery
• Elena De Momi, Politecnico di Milano, ItalyForce sensing in robotic neurosurgery
• George Stetten, University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon, (PA) USA: In-situ augmentation of vision and touch in surgery
• Gregory Hager, Johns Hopkins University, (MD) USA: Automated assessment and teaching of surgical skill
• Sylvain Martel, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada: Robotics methods for navigating untethered agents through the vascular network
• Cameron Riviere, Carnegie Mellon, (PA) USA: Compensation of physiological motion for enhanced surgical accuracy

Furthermore, you can also find the slides here.