France – Singapore Workshop on Medical Imaging and Robotics

02 December 2002

 Ballroom 1, The Oriental Hotel, Singapore

 09:00 – 17:30

    Jointly organized by National University of Singapore (NUS),
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and
National Research Institute in Computer Science and Control (INRIA, France)

Principal Sponsors:  French Embassy in Singapore; Faculty of Engineering, NUS;
Biomedical Engineering Research Centre, NTU; and 
INRIA
, France 


Presentation Slides

MEDICAL ROBOTICS

Physical Models, Resolution Methods and
Real-time Interactions for Soft Tissue Simulations in Medical Simulator

Kenneth Sundaraj (Inria Rhone-Alpes)              

Computer Aided Medical Intervention for Urology, Colonoscopy and Orthopaedic Surgery
Ng Wan Sing  and  Louis Phee (NTU)

Refreshments

Soft Tissues Modeling for Planning in Maxillo-Facial Surgery. Robotics for Obstetrics and Digestive Surgery.
Yohan Payan (TIM-C Grenoble, CNRS & UJF )                       

HUMAN ROBOTICS - Developing Assistive Devices and Neuroscience Investigation Tools
Etienne Burdet (Mechanical Engineering & Bioengineering Division, NUS)

Virtual Reality and Robotics Applied to Surgical Planning, Training, and Intra-Operative Procedures
Alain Garcia (IRCAD-EITS, France)

Future Directions in Medical Robotics, Herve Delingette (Inria Sophia-Antipolis)

MEDICAL IMAGING

Probabilistic Functional Atlas of Human Subcortical Structures
Wieslaw Nowinski (Institute of Bioengineering)

Physiology-Based Deformable Model to Segment Cardiac Images
Herve Delingette (Inria Sophia-Antipolis)

Research on Medical Image Processing Techniques for Assisting Clinical Diagnosis
ChanKup Luk  and SM Krishnan (NTU)  

Medical Image Processing in the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore
Ong Sim Heng (Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS)

Computer Assisted Brain Intervention: Present and Future
Wieslaw Nowinski (
Institute of Bioengineering)


*Merlion and Eiffel Tower pictures are courtesy of http://www.glenn.com.au/merlion.htm, and http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Eiffel_Tower.html, respectively.