Mechanical model of soft biological tissues for computer aided surgery
Understanding the physical phenomena underlying the mechanical properties of human tissue has a great impact on bioscience and engineering. This knowledge will lead to further development of machines and systems in the health care field. For example, a mechanical model of target objects (organ, tissue, etc.) is required for mechanical design, motion planning, information processing, and control of the systems.
I would like to share some of our work in mechanical model of soft biological tissues for computer aided surgery, medical robotics, biomedical engineering. We found from the experiments that soft biological tissues have specific and complex properties and propose a simple model to identify the viscoelastic and nonlinear properties. My talk mainly will focus on research and development of needle insertion system and palpation system based on mechanical model of soft biological tissues.
Biography
Yo Kobayashi is now Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
He received the BS and MS degrees from the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2004 and 2005, and the PhD degree in engineering from Waseda University in 2008. He was a Visiting Research Associate in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, from 2005 to 2006. He was a recipient of a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists during 2007. During 2008, he was a Research Associate in the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Waseda University. He has been a Research Associate during 2009 and Lecturer (junior researcher) with the Faculty of Science and Engineering since 2010, Associate Professor (Senior researcher), Faculty of Science and Engineering / Future Robotics Organization, Waseda University since 2012. He is also PRESTO (Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology) Researcher, Strategic Basic Research Programs, JST.
His current research interests include soft biological tissue modeling, computer aided surgery, medical robotics and rehabilitation robotics.
Further details are available from: http://www.yokobayashi.info/english