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AuTonomous intraLuminAl Surgery

Descripción del proyecto

Cirugía intraluminal asistida por robot

Las operaciones quirúrgicas endoscópicas intraluminales aprovechan los lúmenes del cuerpo para llegar a tejidos específicos en un intento de ofrecer un procedimiento mínimamente invasivo con una recuperación más rápida. Sin embargo, existen riesgos quirúrgicos derivados de la anatomía encontrada y de la falta de herramientas de asistencia fiables. El objetivo del proyecto ATLAS, financiado con fondos europeos, es formar a jóvenes investigadores en robótica quirúrgica y en técnicas que les permitan automatizar las complejas cirugías intraluminales. Esto hará que todo el proceso sea menos propenso a los errores humanos. Además, el proyecto hará avances en los instrumentos y sensores quirúrgicos y producirá un método de modelización anatómica al instante para ayudar al procedimiento quirúrgico intraluminal.

Objetivo

In modern surgery body lumens increasingly serve as access route to deeply located anatomic regions. Navigation through narrow and mostly fragile and deformable lumens requires considerable skill, dexterity and consequently imposes a large mental load. Visualization is notoriously poor. Due to phenomena such as slack, backlash and compliance the controllability of the instruments is bad. Surgeons undergo steep learning curves and even experienced surgeons often lack confidence about their gestures. Surgical risks including internal bleeding, tissue damage, puncture or rupture are imminent.

ATLAS will produce a generation of European researchers that will develop robotic skills and techniques to automate complex surgical intraluminal therapies. Due to physiological phenomena or the surgical action the anatomy changes considerably, reducing the value of pre-operative data and imaging. Compliant instruments must be employed to navigate through lumens. As they proceed they deform and undergo complex and distributed contacts with the fragile environment. Step changes in intra-operative and distributed sensing, real-time modeling and 3D reconstruction, decision-making, intra-operative planning and autonomous control will be made to deal with the extreme variability that is encountered.

Whereas assistive technology for steering flexible endoscopes, ureteroscopes, colonoscopes, guidewires and vascular catheters has been notoriously disparate and incoherent, ATLAS will develop and train researchers in identifying and exploiting the commonalities amongst these cases. This generalization will lead to a rigorous unified framework and guidelines to deploy assistive techniques tailored to each specific therapy. The ATLAS consortium consists of Europe’s leading institutes in the field of surgery automation and design and control of flexible instruments. It is backed up by a broad set of clinical and industrial partners that are eager to get involved in subsequent exploitation.

Coordinador

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 768 960,00
Dirección
OUDE MARKT 13
3000 Leuven
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Región
Vlaams Gewest Prov. Vlaams-Brabant Arr. Leuven
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Coste total
€ 768 960,00

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