Universität Leipzig - Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für computer- und robotergestützte Chirurgie (ICCAS)

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The "Innovation Center for Computer Assisted Surgery" (ICCAS) at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig is an interdisciplinary cooperation between the disciplines surgery, computer science and medical engineering. It is one of the six awardees of the "Centres for Innovation Competence: Create Excellence - Foster Talent" programme of the "German Federal Ministry of Education and Research".

research category: engineering science
research discipline: applied computer science

The main research of ICCAS focuses on the analysis of surgical processes using surgical workflows, the integration of surgical assist systems in the operating theatre and the development of a "Surgical Picture Acquisition and Communication System" (S-PACS) and the systematic clinical evaluation of surgical assist systems. Development of a "digital" operation theatre.

research focus: Surgical Workflow, Surgical Ontology, Surgical-DICOM,
Surgical Picture Acquisition and communication System-S-PACS, Mechatronic Assistance Systems, Evaluation in CAS, Surgical Simulation

main partners:
- Institut for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig
- Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
- DLR, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
- VisAGeS Lab, Rennes, France
- ISIS, Georgetown University Medical Center
- Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin
- Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK)
- MiMed University of Technology, Munich
- Department of Simulation and Graphics Faculty of Computer Science, Univ. Magdeburg
- Institut of Psychology and Ergonomics, University of Technology Berlin
- ZESS, University of Siegen

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