Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions: Background and challenges for the future

Yohan Payan will introduce the field of Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions while focusing on the areas of his research expertise, namely the biomechanical modeling of soft tissues. He will then describe the main challenges researchers face in the future, i.e. the automatic generation of patient-specific models of  organs and the integration of simulation tools into medical devices able to provide real-time computations of these models. He will illustrate these challenges in  the domains of plastic and maxilla facial surgery,  neurosurgery and for the prevention of pressure ulcers (for paraplegic patients and diabetic persons). Payan was hired in 1997 as a professor in Grenoble University and since 2002 is research director at CNRS. Fifteen years post-PhD he has focused on biomechanics for speech production (1997 Best Thesis Prize, Grenoble  University), and has developed a research team dedicated to biomechanics for Computer Assisted Surgery. He received the 2012 Senior Prize of the French Biomechanics Society. His main research concerns biomechanical modeling of soft tissues and their integration into medical devices to assist surgeons for planning (pre-operative surgical assistance) or intra-operative surgical guidance applications in plastic and maxilla-facial surgery, neurosurgery or rehabilitationClick here for a map to the location of the talk. For more information, email Sidney Fels.Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), Jim Pattison Building, Paetzold Auditorium (room 1891), 899 W 12th Ave, Vancouver