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AuTonomous intraLuminAl Surgery

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Chirurgia intraluminale assistita da robotica

Gli interventi chirurgici endoscopici intraluminali sfruttano le cavità del corpo per raggiungere tessuti specifici nel tentativo di offrire una procedura minimamente invasiva e un recupero rapido. Ciononostante, sussistono rischi a livello chirurgico derivati dal tipo di anatomia interessata e dalla mancanza di strumenti di supporto affidabili. Il progetto ATLAS, finanziato dall’UE, intende formare alcuni giovani ricercatori in robotica chirurgica e tecniche che consentano loro di automatizzare complessi interventi chirurgici intraluminali. In tal modo, l’intero processo diventerà meno soggetto all’errore umano. Inoltre, il progetto farà progredire gli strumenti e i sensori chirurgici e produrrà un approccio di modellizzazione dell’anatomia in tempo reale allo scopo di supportare la procedura chirurgica intraluminale.

Obiettivo

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.

Coordinatore

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

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Regione
Vlaams Gewest Prov. Vlaams-Brabant Arr. Leuven
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 768 960,00

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