Abstract
The excellence of a surgeon, or more generally of an interventional physician, is not simply a matter of intellectual ability to make the right diagnosis or choose the right therapeutic strategy ; it also rests on the physician's ability to perform with mastery and dexterity an operative gesture involving his own body via his hands and all his senses. In this, as in so many other activities, the tool conceived by the human mind is an extension of the hand. While flint was used to perform the first trepanations several thousand years ago, modern operations incorporate robots, cameras and computers. This is the highly interdisciplinary field of Computer-Assisted Medical-Surgical Gesture, born with 3D imaging around half a century ago. After an introduction to the field and a brief overview of developments both in clinical applications and in the approaches and tools developed, we'll look at some current work and the challenges for the future.
Jocelyne Troccaz
Jocelyne Troccaz is CNRS Research Director Emeritus at the TIMC laboratory in Grenoble, France. She obtained a PhD in computer science from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 1986 on the subject of automatic robot programming for industrial and space robotics. Since 1990, she has focused exclusively on medical applications. Its research focuses on medical robotics and imaging, and more generally on assistance for diagnosis and therapy. It works closely with clinical teams in Grenoble and Paris, and has produced significant innovations in several clinical fields (urology, radiotherapy, cardiac surgery, orthopedics, etc.). Thanks to industrial transfer, hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide have benefited from our research.
She is a Fellow of the learned societies MICCAI (2010) and IEEE (2018). She has received the National Academy of Surgery Award (2014), the CNRS Silver Medal (2015) and the MICCAI Enduring Impact Award (2022). She is a Knight of the Legion of Honor (2016) and an Officer of the National Order of Merit (2023). She has been a member of the Académie de chirurgie since 2014 and of the Académie des sciences since 2022.
