Abstract

Intelligent and precise minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment has become one of the main trends of clinical medical development. Development of novel techniques and therapeutic strategies will be helpful for integrating minimally invasive treatment into an intelligent medical system. In the field of intra-operative imaging and processing, integrated diagnosis and therapeutic systems, which combines preoperative and intraoperative images have been established for precision tissue identification, tumor resection during surgery. The accuracy of the intraoperative detection of the tumor could be improved by using high-precision dynamic optical analysis. Furthermore, a large number of relevant research integrated mechanics, informatics, electronics and medical sciences have been carried out and are highly applicable to tumor diagnosis and therapy. These procedures include medical image/information assisted robotics surgery and minimally invasive intervention, which make surgery safer, less invasive and more effective. We have investigated novel image processing and multimodality image fusion methods in the field of quantitative and automatic analysis of lesions and anatomic structures to guide accurate diagnosis, efficient implant determination and radiation-free intraoperative navigation. The intelligent medical image analysis techniques have been carried out to guide precision treatment in different medical applications such as cardiovascular, orthopedics, and neurosurgery. Our goals expect break through the traditional concept of minimally invasive robotics surgery, open up a new field of minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment for precision medicine.

Biography

Dr. Hongen Liao a Full Professor and Vice Dean in the School of Medicine, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. He received his Ph.D. degrees in biomedical precision engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan in 2003. He was a Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). From 2004, he was a faculty member at the Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, where he became an Associate Professor in 2007. He has been selected as National Distinguished Professor, China since 2010. He is Director and Founder of the Advanced Theranostics and 3-D Imaging Laboratory, Tsinghua University. Professor Liao’s research interests include 3D medical image, image-guided surgery, medical robotics, computer-assisted surgery, and fusion of these innovative healthcare technologies for minimally invasive precision diagnosis and therapy. He has also been involved in long viewing distance autostereoscopic display and 3D visualization. He is the author and co-author of more than 290 peer-reviewed articles and proceedings papers, as well as over 50 patents, 300 abstracts and numerous invited lectures. Dr. Liao was distinguished by receiving multiple government awards and various Best Paper Awards from different academic societies. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE EMBS Conference, and he has been the Organization Chair of Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality Conference (MIAR) 2008, the Program Chair of the Asian Conference on Computer-Aided Surgery Conference (ACCAS) 2008 and 2009, the Tutorial co-chair of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Conference (MICCAI) 2009, the Publicity Chair of MICCAI 2010, the General Chair of MIAR 2010 and ACCAS 2012, the Program Chair of MIAR 2013, the Workshop Chair of MICCAI 2013 and MICCAI 2019, and the General co-chair of MIAR 2016 and ACCAS 2018. He has served as a President of Asian Society for Computer Aided Surgery and Cochair of Asian-Pacific Activities Working Group, International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE).