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| BENEFICIARY 03 |
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| BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ORGANIZATION |
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The faculty of Medicine and Surgery, established in 1343, is one of the three original faculties of the University of Pisa ( www.unipi.it), one of the major Italian universities. The Division of General and Transplantation Surgery ( www.med.unipi.it/patchir) (DGTS) participates in undergraduate and postgraduate education and carries out clinical and basic research in all surgical specialities. |
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It is also an established Center of Excellence for Minimally Invasive Surgery and New Technology (www.endodoc.it) performing over 2500 surgical procedures per year. DGTS participates in this project with the EndoCAS laboratory (www.endocas.org), the new Center for Computer Assisted Surgery, established in 2003 inside Hospital area. EndoCAS involves the full time work of 17 researchers, mainly engineers, computer scientists and physicists who work in close contact with surgeons. |
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| MAIN TASKS WITHIN THE PROJECT |
UNIPI will lead WP10, on the assessment and validation of surgical procedures, and it will develop image guidance systems to be integrated in the surgical console. |
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| PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE |
EndoCAS focuses on research in the fields of medical imaging and image-based modelling, surgical planning and simulation, augmented reality, robotics and mechatronics, surgical gesture analysis, bioengineering and clinical use of CAS systems. |
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EndoCAS center has a big experience in the development of passive navigation systems able to provide a visual guidance to the surgeon during the surgical procedure, in the development of interactive navigation systems that implement a closed loop with robotic and mechatronic tools, in the development of surgical simulators based on dynamic virtual environments which allow the user to acquire and improve the abilities necessary to move the surgical tools coherently during the intervention, and in the 3D physically based modelling of tissue deformation using a mesh free approach. |
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| CONTACT |
| Franco Mosca |
| Professor of Surgery |
| Department of Oncology, University of Pisa |
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| 56025 Pontedera (Pisa) / Italy |
| Tel. +39 000.000000/000 |
| Fax +39 050.000000 |
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| Web: www.unipi.it / www.endocas.org |
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| PEOPLE |
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Prof. Franco Mosca M.D. is Professor of Surgery at DGTS. He is Head of the Division of General Surgery, Department of Oncology at the University of Pisa; Director of the Residency Program in General Surgery of the University of Pisa Medical School; Coordinator of the Liver Transplant Program of Tuscany. Director of the Referral Centers of Tuscany for: transplantation, management of pancreatic diseases and Minimally Invasive Surgery and New Technologies in Surgery “ENDODOC”. Active member of over 15 Scientific Societies. |
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Prof. Andrea Pietrabissa M.D.specialized in General Surgery. He was Research Fellow in Hepatic Tranplantation at the University of Chicago, and Senior Registrar at the Ninewells Hospital in Dundee (Scotland) and Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Dundee. Since 1999 he is Associate Professor of General Surgery at the University of Pisa. He is responsible of the Minimally Invasive Section of the DGTS and performed over than 3000 surgical interventions. He is author of papers in international journals and co-inventor of patents. |
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Prof. Davide Caramella Davide Caramella was born in 1958 in Florence. He graduated (cum laude) in Medicine at the University of Florence, where he specialized in Radiology in 1990 (cum laude). In 1992 he moved to the Department of Radiology of the University of Pisa and since 2000 is Associate Professor of Radiology. He is Chairman of the Information Technology Committee of the European Association of Radiology (http://www.ear-online.org) and Scientific Director of Eurorad (http://www.eurorad.org). He is Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery and is member of the Overseas Advisory Panel of the British Journal of Radiology. |
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Vincenzo Ferrari was born in 1976 in Italy. He received the master degree in computer science engineering from the University of Pisa in 2001. In 2002 he worked at ISTC-CNR (National Research Council) on motion modeling and surface deformation for a 3D talking face. From 2003 to 2005 he worked on machine vision, voice interactive systems, animatronics and 3D avatars, and he received a master in Energetics. In January 2006 he joined to the EndoCAS Centre as PhD Student in Health Technologies at the University of Pisa where he works on segmentation and registration of medical images. |
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Andrea Moglia received his Master's Degree in Engineering from the University of Brescia (Italy) in 2003. In 2008 he received a PhD in Microsystems Engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy), focusing on technologies and clinical application of capsule endoscopy. His main research interests are in the fields of capsule endoscopy, and interactive 3D applications in medicine and science. He is coauthor of several papers on ISI journals and international conferences. |
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Cinzia Freschi was born in in Caserta (Italy), on December 25, 1969. She received the master degree in Computer Engineer from the University of Pisa in 1998, and in the same year she joined to the Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory (ARTS Lab) of the Scuola Superiore sant’Anna. Her research interests were in the field of rehabilitation engineering and biomedical robotics. Since 2004, she has been a Research Assistant at the CRIM Lab of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. Her main research interests are in the field of biomedical robotics and computer assisted surgery. |
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Giuseppe Turini was born in 1975 in Pescia (Pistoia, Italy). He received the master degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa in 2004, and in the same year he joined to the Visual Computing Lab of the CNR-ISTI in Pisa. Since 2005 he is a research fellow at the EndoCAS Centre, and his main research interests are in the field of computer graphics visualization and physical simulation. At the present time his research is carried out in the context of computer-assisted surgery. |
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Sara Condino received the master degree in Biomedical engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2008. She is currently a Ph.D. student at the EndoCAS Centre and working on passive navigation systems. Her main research interests are in the field of biomedical robotics and computer-assisted surgery. |
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