Research

Research Areas

da Vinci Research Kit

Biomedical Modeling and Control

IIGI program
Glucose control
  • Constructing indivisualized model of diabetes considering effects of hormones & organs related with physiological dynamics
  • Evaluation of therapy protocol in a computational environment using the virtual patient model

Early Detection of Disease Algorithm Development

  • Availability of predicting a probability of disease occurrence for an individual with specific risk factors
  • Showing the characteristics of population that could be used in epidemiological study supporting physicians' final decision making process & treatment
  • Application to various area of medicine

Maneuverable Capsule Endoscope

  • Coventional Endoscopes cause pain and an unpleasant feeling in patients
  • In order to overcome such limitations with endoscopes, capsule endoscope that a patient can swallow was recently developed
  • The goal of the research of Maneuverable Capsule Endoscope is to provide a capsule endoscope that, when input into the internal organ, can concentrically take images of a specific portion while staying region inside an internal organ with its own actuation system

Human Space Biology: Micro-gravity

  • To explore the space, a research on Human Space Biology(HSB) is required to overcome some physiological changes under the extreme space environments
  • Random positioning machine was developed for simulating the extreme physical conditions, such as micro gravity
  • The experiments with cells and Organ-on-a-chip will be conducted

Artificial Intelligence in Endoscopy

용종 검출 및 진단 UI/UX
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  • Early diagnosis & removal are primary of preventing colorectal cancer
  • Hight variation rate of detecting polyps by doctors's skills & experiences
  • Hard to find & remove all polyps in colon by one colonoscopy
  • In colonoscopy video, suspicious frames with polyps are detected
  • Assist 2nd colonoscopy & doctor's diagnosis with detected suspicious frames

Improving a Non-contact Skin Evaluation Device

  • The characteristics of operation is simple but tedious, making the practitioners to lose focus
  • Long period of treatment causes physical pain on the practioners' neck, shoulder, biceps and wrist which leads to ineffective treatment result
  • The presented system allows for automatic uniform distribution of laser irradiation on human skins

Automatic measuring instrument for range of motion in patients with spondyloarthropathy

  • 강직 척추염 질환의 진행, 치료의 평가에 전 세계적으로 유용하게 사용되는 BASMI 항목을 측정함에 있어서 현재는 사람이 직접 측정을 하고 있으나, 정확도 및 피로도 등의 문제가 대두되고 있음
  • 본 연구에서는 이미지 센서 및 레이저 센서를 기반으로 한 영상처리 기법을 적용할 예정이며, BASMI 항목을 자동으로 의사에게 제공하자고자 함
  • 기존 방식과 같이 사람이 직접 BASMI항목을 측정함으로써 생기는 문제점을 개선하기 위하여 자동으로 측정하는 자동관절 운동범위 측정장치를 개발하고자 함
  • 민감하고 정확한 측정을 바탕으로 강직 척추염의 치료 약제 선택, 변경에 유용한 도구로 사용하고자 함

Smart Wheelchair

  • Wheelchair which contains health parameter estimation system can be proposed
  • Acquisition technology of unconstrained/noninstrusive bio-signal for minimizing suffering of wheelchair users
  • Emergency recognition & transmit technology based on bio-signal & user's posture
  • Tilt/Recline function for bedsore prevention & position change
  • Stable acquisition of bio-signal & reduction for caring cost

Brain Machine Interface via Real-time brain Signals: Thought-controlled Robot Arm

  • Our research team present a Brain Machine Interface six degree of freedom of a robot arm is controlled by the cortical activations on the motor cortex
  • Stroke patients are expected to maintain independence of activities of daily living

Mirror Robot for Rehabilitation of Hemiplegic Arm

  • Functional recovery of hemiplegic arm in stroke patients is achievable by applying mirror therapy
  • Mirror robot exercises hemiplegic arm according to the attitude of healthy arm
  • Stroke patients are expected to present brain neuroplasticity by proprioceptive input as well as mirror effect with a real-time mirror robot

Robot-Assisted Laser Hair Removal (LHR) System

  • Aesthetics and skin-care market is rapidly growing each year.
  • To diagnose skin pores size, color configuration and wrinkle depth, a new equipment with lower price and high quality performance is required to be developed.
  • This project is operated in joint collaboration between SNUH Dermatology Branch and BMC.
  • The objective of this research is to develop improved quality and versatile skin condition measurement device by adopting the concept of image processing algorithm based on automatic-control and clinical experiment

Surgical Robots

  • Draw backs of existing laparoscopic device
    • Hard to approach to target organ
    • End-effector's limited degree-of-freedom
    • Increased surgeon's workload
  • Development of Virtual Vision Platform (VVP), multi-medical image transmission platform in virtual reality
  • Progress & Accomplishment
    • Application of HOTAS* controller to surgical robot system
    • A feasibility study for SOBW* in surgical robot system
    • Wireless control system for simultaneous operation
    • Development of Head Mounted Interface(HMI)

*HOTAS: Hands on Throttle and Stick

*SOBW: Surgical Operation by Wire