IEEE RAS Standards Committee/Industry Connections Surgical Robotics Meeting

From 17 Sep, 2014 13:30 until 17 Sep, 2014 17:30
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The past decade has witnessed accelerated growth of medical robotics and computer-assisted medical technologies due to the significant practical utility, economic value, and diversity of applications benefiting patients, providers and healthcare systems. However, several challenges arise from the complexities engendered within the human body and the diverse sets of multi-disciplinary knowledge that need to be merged to create these system-level solutions and to successfully bring them to the market. We believe that there is a need for the robotics and medical device community to initiate a discussion on several issues that could benefit academia and industry in their shared pursuit of improved patient care. RAS Standards Committee for Standards Activities (RAS-SCSA) has started an Industry Connections Activity and a first meeting will be held at the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Chicago on Wednesday, 17 September.

We will be focusing the discussion around the topics of "System Interoperability", "Consensus Benchmarks", "Quantitative Assessment" and "Translational Research" in the broader medical robotics arena. This discussion is a critical first step to allowing multiple stakeholders (academia and industry) to identify suitable candidates for pursuit of standardization, build consensus, and translate path-breaking/fast-evolving research advances into grounded sets of best-practices/benchmarks and to assist the community in translating robotics research into clinical use. More details are available from https://sites.google.com/site/ieeerasmedicalrobotics/home/industry-connections-activity/.

For questions, please contact Venkat Krovi <vkrovi@buffalo.edu> or Raj Madhavan <raj.madhavan@ieee.org>. 

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