Award Abstract #9731748
ERC: Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology

NSF Org:	EEC Division of Engineering Education and Centers
Initial Amendment Date:	September 8, 1998
Latest Amendment Date:	March 23, 2009
Award Number:	9731748
Award Instrument:	Cooperative Agreement
Program Manager:	Lynn Preston EEC Division of Engineering Education and Centers ENG Directorate for Engineering
Start Date:	September 1, 1998
Expires:	December 31, 2009 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$33069922
Investigator(s):	Russell Taylor rht@cs.jhu.edu (Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Johns Hopkins University 3400 N CHARLES ST BALTIMORE, MD 21218 410/516-8668
NSF Program(s):	INT'L RES & EDU IN ENGINEERING, ADVANCED TECH EDUCATION PROG, URBAN SYSTEMIC PROGRAM, EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC PROGRAM, RESEARCH ON LEARNING & EDUCATI, CONTROL, NETWORKS, & COMP INTE, ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTERS, HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Field Application(s):	0104000 Information Systems
Program Reference Code(s):	SMET, OTHR, HPCC, 9251, 9215, 9178, 9177, 7915, 7238, 7234, 7218, 1359, 124E, 0000
Program Element Code(s):	7641, 7412, 7347, 5978, 1666, 1518, 1480, 1360

ABSTRACT

9731748 TAYLOR This award initiates the Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (CISST). The lead institution is Johns Hopkins University in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and Shadyside Hospital, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham & Women's Hospital. The award funds the first five years of effort under a new cooperative agreement, with a potential duration of ten years. The vision of the ERC is to advance knowledge and technology needed to develop a new generation of minimally invasive surgery techniques for the 21st century, which will dramatically impact health care in the U.S., reaping substantial economic and social impacts. Critical to the vision are two core concepts: 1) Computer-assisted surgical planning/computer assisted surgical execution systems will integrate accurate patient-specific models, surgical plan optimization permitting the plans to be carried out accurately, safely, and with minimal invasiveness; 2) Surgical Assistant Systems will work cooperatively with surgeons in carrying out precise and minimally invasive surgical procedures. The center's research program is multidisciplinary and designed to produce fundamental advances in core technologies of modeling and analysis and interfacial technologies for surgical systems. These will be integrated into a robust, modular family of systems and subsystems promoting rapid prototyping of multi-surgical testbed applications, as well as facilitating transfer to end use within commercialized systems. A multidisciplinary educational program will facilitate the training of engineers, scientists, and clinicians to advance all phases of this work from basic research to deployed systems. Practitioners and industry will be actively involved in the center. NSF funds will be used for the fundamental research needed to explore and advance these concepts, clinical work will be supported through other sources. This award is the outcome of the entry of this ERC's preproposal in the FY 1997-98 Engineering Research Centers Competition under the ERC Program Announcement, NSF 97-5.

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