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 

PROGRAM

09:00 – 9:15

Registration / Reception

SESSION 1

 

09:15 – 09:30

Welcome
Vision & Mission of France-Singapore Collaboration (Christian Laugier, SM Krishnan, Marcelo Ang)

SESSION 2

MEDICAL ROBOTICS

09:30 – 09:50

Physical Models, Resolution Methods and
Real-time Interactions for Soft Tissue Simulations in Medical Simulator
Kenneth Sundaraj (Inria Rhone-Alpes)              

09:50 – 10:10

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

10:10 – 10.30

Refreshments

10:30 – 10:50

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

10:50 – 11:10

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

11:10 – 11:30

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

11:30 – 11.50

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

11:50 – 12:10

Discussion

12:10 – 13:20

Lunch

SESSION 3

MEDICAL IMAGING

13:20 – 13:40

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

13:40 – 14:00           

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

14:00 – 14:20

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

14:20 – 14:40

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

14:40 – 15:00

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

15:00 – 15:20

Discussion

15:20 – 15:40

Refreshments

SESSION 4

FRANCE-SINGAPORE COLLABORATION

15:40 – 17:15

Collaboration Discussion

17:15 – 17:30

Conclusion

Notes : Attendance to Sessions 1,2 and 3 will be based on on-line registration and successful confirmation.         

            Attendance to Session 4 will be by invitation only.

All interested researchers are encouraged to apply.

*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.