CRAS 2016 report
Guest post by Renata Elek
This year, CRAS (Joint Workshop on New Technologies for
Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery) was held in Pisa, Italy. The workshop “seeks to give a clear view
on the status and recent trends of assistive surgical robotic technologies. It
aims to support and propose concrete measures to accelerate research and
innovation in this field. CRAS originates from efforts to collaborate among
European groups to achieve a critical mass in surgical robotics. As such the
workshop continue on discussions started at ERF in Lyon and at ICRA in
Karlsruhe, and previous meetings at Verona and Genoa. More in particular CRAS
attempts to identify the steps necessary to stimulate cooperation between
research and industry, across national borders and different surgical robotic
projects to take advantage of the growing attention and support for research
and exploitation in this interesting and growing field”.
CRAS included:
- 5 keynote speeches: the speakers were Paolo Dario from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna,
- Joel W. Burdick from California Institute of Technologies, Brian Davies from Imperial College London, Michel Brochard from European Commission, Franca Melfi from Robotic Multispeciality Center for Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa;
- 7 sessions with the following topics: microsurgery, endoscopy, training, interfaces and tools, novel robotic hardware, sensing & classification, segmentation and algorithms, and safety and novel applications;
- 3 poster sessions with various topics;
- 3 special events: a COSUR event, a round table and the first European meeting of the DVRK community.
Our group
submitted an extended abstract to CRAS: “Feature extraction-based automated
camera motion for surgical endoscopy support”, which was accepted as poster presentation. See it below! I had to make a poster teaser about our work
and the poster was shown for one full day. CRAS will be held in Montpellier,
France next year.
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