Initial Project Information: IGOS
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IGOS

Image guided orthopedical surgery

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Project Nr: HC 1026 Group: III Project Duration: 27 months
Key words:
Category:Image-guided Orthopaedic Surgery
Summary: Surgical planning on preoperative images; robot assistance to reproduce surgical plans in spine and knee surgery.
Mission:IGOS is mainly concerned with demonstrating and validating telematics tools for image-guided orthopaedic surgery which support safer, more accurate, minimally invasive operations. New computer vision sensors and guiding systems facilitate a three-dimensional planned surgical strategy from which around 300,000 patients in Europe might benefit annually. IGOS will enhance the effectiveness and reduce the trauma of orthopaedic interventions, particularly for the elderly. One of its central aims is to help surgeons and health authorities recognise which kind of precise technique should be promoted for major interventions.
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Coordinator(s)

  • Mr. Philippe Cinquin
    Inst Albert Bonniot
    Faculte de Medecine de Grenoble
    Domaine de la Merci
    F-38706 La Tronche
    France     		tel: 33 76 54 95 07
    fax: 33 76 54 95 55
    philippe.cinquin@imag.fr
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Participants:

Name of InstitutionCity+Postal CodeCountryRegion
Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli Bologna I-40136 Italy IT51
RWTH Aachen / Lehrstuhl für Biomedizinische Technik Aachen D-52074 Germany DEA2
University of Hull Hull GB-HU6 United Kingdom UK21
SOFAMOR SNC Tremblay F-93290 France FR1
Stierlen MAQUET AG Rastatt D-7550 Germany DE12
AESCULAP AG Tuttlingen D-78532 Germany DE14

Project Objectives, Summary Description and Anticipated Results

Orthopaedic surgery tends towards minimally invasive surgery, but demands more and more accuracy and safety. The introduction of new Computer Vision sensors and guiding systems in the Operating Room makes it possible to assist the surgeon in navigating towards a 3-Dimensionally planned surgical strategy by using augmented reality systems. The targeted market is wide : about 1 000 000 patients undergo Orthopaedic Surgery each year in Europe, and 30% of them are potential IGOS candidates. IGOS reduces the trauma of orthopaedic interventions and improves efficiency. This has obvious positive consequences for public health, particularly for the elderly.

Various preliminary techniques have been developed recently by the partners of this consortium, who have proved the feasibility of these methods, and analysed user requirements. The current proposal mainly addresses phases 3 (building demonstrators) and 4 (validation of demonstrators). One major objective is to establish guidelines to help surgeons and healthcare authorities recognise more clearly which type of technique should be promoted for major orthopaedic surgical interventions. These techniques may be passive (intra-operative tools track the surgeon's instruments, enabling him to adapt the actual intervention to the strategy he had previously planned), or active (robots position surgical tools).

The industrial partners of the consortium are leaders in Orthopaedic Surgery and in Operating Room Equipment and have already begun to invest in IGOS. Their involvement is a key point for future exploitation of the results that will be obtained with IGOS. Our objective is to open the way for industrial development of IGOS based on results of the evaluation that will be performed, which we hope will allow for the emergence of a consensus in this domain and suppress barriers to the diffusion of these new techniques which European research has widely contributed to developing.

Other Characteristics of the Project:

Users involved
Orthopaedic Surgeons
Technologies and/or approach used
Integration of multi-modal pre-operative and intra-operative images that enable to plan the optimal surgical strategy with passive, semi-active and active aids to the implementation of this strategy
Expected benefits for the citizen
Reduction of the immediate and long term post-operative consequences of orthopaedic interventions
Expected benefits for the users of the application
  • assistance to the selection and performance of complex surgical strategy
  • assistance to the selection of the adequate Computer Assisted Surgery System
Expected benefits for the European Industries
  • better penetration of their traditional market, thanks to the integration of Information Technology
  • reinforcement of their position in a new but rapidly growing market
Contribution to EU-policies
  • better knowledge of the characteristics and expected benefits of new surgical tools
  • improvement of Quality Assurance in health-care delivery
  • improvement of the reproducibility of complex surgical procedures
  • potential reduction of health-care expenses.

Validation Sites

CHUG Grenoble Rhône-Alpes FR
IOR Bologna Toscana IT
DHMW Wuerselen Köln DE
BGU Frankfurt Darmstadt DE

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