Research Training Group 1126: “Intelligent Surgery”
Possibilities in the way of planning surgery, interactive imaging, telemanipulation, robotics and navigation are leading to profound changes in the surgeon’s workplace and will, in the long term, alter the performance profile for surgeons
Customized developments, tailored to the subdisciplines of surgery, are necessary in order to take full advantage of the potential offered by modern technical systems. The corresponding new developments in perioperative data collection, the planning of surgical interventions, navigation, telemanipulation and in the man-machine interface are the subject of graduate college 1122 “Intelligent surgery – the development of new computer-based methods for the workplace of the future in soft tissue surgery”.
The broad use of innovative surgical strategies demands a newly designed surgical workplace that adequately takes into account the fact that surgery and medical technology are intrinsically intertwined and that provides a professional solution in allocating responsibility for the technological and surgical aspects of therapy. Alongside the goal of developing new surgical methods for the surgical workplace of the future, the graduate college also seeks to promote the training of competent researchers in the area of “clinical medical technology”, individuals who will shoulder major responsibility for the further development of this field and accompany its progress.
Building on the close cooperation existing between the University of Heidelberg, the Technical University of Karlsruhe and the German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, the graduate college offers a premium quality program in which instruction and research are closely aligned with one another.
Project partner
- Gefäßchirurgie Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
- Anästhesie Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
- Radiologie Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
- Herzchirurgie Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
- IRF / IAIM Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
- Fakultät für Elektrotechnik & Informationstechnik Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
- Radiologie Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
- Medizinische und Biologische Informatik Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
