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AuTonomous intraLuminAl Surgery

Description du projet

Chirurgie intraluminale assistée par robotique

Les chirurgies endoscopiques intraluminales exploitent les lumières du corps pour atteindre des tissus spécifiques dans le but d’offrir une procédure peu invasive avec une récupération plus rapide. Cependant, il existe des risques chirurgicaux liés aux éléments anatomiques rencontrés et au manque d’outils d’assistance fiables. Le projet ATLAS, financé par l’UE, vise à former de jeunes chercheurs à la robotique chirurgicale et aux techniques qui permettront d’automatiser les opérations intraluminales complexes. L’ensemble du processus sera ainsi moins sujet à l’erreur humaine. En outre, le projet permettra de faire progresser les instruments et les capteurs chirurgicaux et de mettre en œuvre une approche de modélisation de l’anatomie en temps réel pour assister la procédure chirurgicale intraluminale.

Objectif

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.

Coordinateur

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 768 960,00
Adresse
OUDE MARKT 13
3000 Leuven
Belgique

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Région
Vlaams Gewest Prov. Vlaams-Brabant Arr. Leuven
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Liens
Coût total
€ 768 960,00

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