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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations
Regional Initiatives
At the regional level, the MIMESIS team collaborates with
ICube Automatique Vision et Robotique (AVR)
We have been collaborating with the medical robotics team on percutaneous procedures, in particular robotized needle insertion (with Prof. Bernard Bayle), and needle tracking in medical images (with Elodie Breton). We are also collaborating with Jonathan Vappou on elastography.
ICube Informatique Géométrique et Graphique (IGG)
MIMESIS joined the IGG team and develops collaboration in the domain of dynamic topologies, mainly through the use of the CGoGN framework. CGoGN is a C++ library for the manipulation of meshes. It implements combinatorial maps and their multiresolution extensions and has been used in various high level application like the simulation of crowds of autonomous agents and the simulation of cuts, tears and fractures in the context of surgical simulations.
Institute of Image-Guided Surgery (IHU) Strasbourg
We have several active projects and collaborations with IHU Strasbourg in order to collect and use medical images (such as MRI, CT, Fluoroscopy and Ultrasound) before, during and after minimally-invasive surgical procedures (percutaneous, endovascular and laparoscopic). Such images represent an essential support for the development of numerical simulations for intra-operative assistance through augmented and virtual reality. Eventually, simulations will be used for the diagnostic, treatment as well as for training and teaching in medical domain. Yet, before being used in current clinical routine, such simulations must be validated on animal models. Through our collaboration with IHU, we use CT and MRI images to retrieve the anatomical model of internal structures, whereas fluoroscopic and ultrasound images can be used to retrieve 2D images of the physiology and the navigation of surgical instruments within the anatomy. In-vivo procedures can also be performed under ethical approval of MSER (reference to ethic protocol APAFIS 15433-2018060815283960). We also collaborate with IHU-Strasbourg fellow surgeons, such as Pr. Mario GIMENEZ and Dr. Alain GARCIA, that provide medical and technical support for medical aspects (see Fig. 11).
