Robot-assisted eye surgery: steps toward operating room

Focus

The workshop focuses on three key aspects of ophthalmic technologies and themes:

• Robotics and mechatronics : Hand-held manipulators, teleoperation systems, flexible robots, new types of sensors (force, impedance, oct).
• Image-guidance : OCT-guidance, Adaptive Optics, multi-modal registration.
• Clinical applications and novel therapies: Surgical training, stem cell therapy protocols, gene therapy protocols, retinal vein cannulation.

Speaker Bios

Iulian I. Iordachita (IEEE M’08, S’14) is a research faculty within the Mechanical Engineering Department, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, faculty member of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR), and the director of the Advanced Medical Instrumentation and Robotics Research Laboratory (AMIRo). He received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Craiova, Romania. He has been editor for the Journal of Medical Robotics Research and guest editor for Sensor, MDPI, special issues on sensors for medical applications. His current research interests include medical robotics, image guided surgery, robotics, smart surgical tools, and medical instrumentation.

Nabil Simaan (Ph.D, 2002 Technion, Israel) is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He is an IEEE Senior Member and has served as an Editor for IEEE ICRA, associate editor for IEEE TRO. He currently serves as Associate Editor for ASME JMR, and editorial board member for Robotica and a co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Surgical Robotics. His research interests include parallel robotics, continuum robotics and design of new robotic systems for dexterous and image-guided surgical robotics. His recent works focuses on use of intraoperative sensing for enabling complementary situational awareness in robot-assisted surgery.

Professor Mamoru Mitsuishi is currently the executive director and vice president of the University of Tokyo, posts he has held since the start of the 2017 academic year. Prof. Mitsuishi became a professor in 1999. He has held the positions of vice dean (2012-2014) and dean (2014-2017) of the School of Engineering. He was also a councilor on the University of Tokyo’s Education and Research Council between 2013 and 2017. Prof. Mitsuishi’s areas of interest are biomedical robotics and manufacturing systems including the fields of multi-sensor integrated intelligent manufacturing systems and biomanufacturing.

Jake Abbott is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah. He is the head of the Telerobotics Lab, where his research involves medical and microscale telerobotic systems, with a specialization in the use of magnetic fields for manipulation. His research has been supported by the NSF, NIH, NASA, and industry. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research associate at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He received a B.S. degree at Utah State University, an M.S. degree at the University of Utah, and a Ph.D. degree at Johns Hopkins University, all in mechanical engineering.

Joseph A. Izatt is the Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor of Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering, Professor of Ophthalmology, and Program Director for Biophotonics at the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics at Duke University. Prof. Izatt's research interests include biomedical optics and spectroscopy, coherence-based tomographic optical imaging, and novel instrumentation for intrasurgical visualization and manipulation. Dr. Izatt is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Optical Society of America (OSA), and National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Emmanuel Vander Poorten (Ph.D, 2007 Kyoto University, Japan) is currently a Assistant Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department in KU Leuven, Belgium. He is coordinator of the Robot-Assisted Surgery group, founder of CRAS, the Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery and Board Member of Actuator a biennial event bringing together leading experts, suppliers and users of new actuators and low-power electromagnetic drives. His research interests include medical device design, robotic co-manipulation and control of flexible instruments and robotic catheters.

Cameron Riviere (Ph.D, 1995 Johns Hopkins University, US) is a Research Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and Director of the Surgical Mechatronics Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. He has been guest editor of special issues on medical robotics in the Proceedings of the IEEE and the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, and is active in the summer schools on medical robotics in North America and Europe. His research interests include medical robotics, control systems, signal processing, and biomedical applications of human-machine interfaces.

Jin U. Kang is Jacob Suter Jammer Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is a member of Johns Hopkins’ Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute and Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics. Kang is a fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), the International Optics Society (SPIE), and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

Mr. Changyan He will be representing Prof. Yang Yang (Beihang University). Prof. Yang Yang is born in 1962, China, is currently a professor and a PhD candidate supervisor at School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, China. He received his PhD degree from Department of Mech-tronics Engineering, Beihang University, China, in 1996. He studied at the University of Tokyo as post-doctor from 1997 to 1999. He has been a professor in department of Mechanical design and automation, Beihang University, since 2002. His main research interests include robotics, robot-assisted eye surgery, and interaction between the surgical instrument and ocular tissue.

Abouzar Eslami is the head of the translational research lab at Carl Zeiss Meditec A.G. in Munich, Germany. He has been leading research and development for ophthalmology and computer assisted ophthalmic surgery. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Technical University of Munich. He received B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering at Amir Kabir (Polytechnique) University and then M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Tehran, Iran. Dr. Eslami and his team publish in medical conferences such as ARVO and medical imaging conferences such as MICCAI, and ICRA.

M. Ali Nasseri (Ph.D, 2015 Technical University Munich, Germany) is currently the head of medical technology laboratory at the ophthalmology department of Klinikum rechts der Isar which is the university hospital of technical university of Munich. Ali received his Ph.D in biomedical engineering with a joint degree from medical school, mechanical engineering faculty and informatics faculty of TUM. He is active member of IEEE, ARVO, DOG and co-author of more than 50 scientific publications, patents and book chapters. Ali’s interests are surgical robotics; medical imaging; machine learning and translation of these technologies to the healthcare system