Abstract:　Rapid technical advances in medical imaging, including its growing application in therapy and invasive/interventional procedures, have attracted significant interest in the close integration of research in the life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, and engineering. One interesting field of imaging technology is naked-eye stereoscopy, which displays 3D autostereoscopic images without the need for special eyeglasses or tracking devices. A novel medical autostereoscopic image named Integral Videography (IV) will be introduced. The development of relative image overlay techniques makes it appear that the 3-D image is inside the patient's body, and enables a medical augmented reality environment for minimally invasive surgery. Development of minimally invasive precision diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for future biomedicine based on bio-medical imaging, bio-robotics, precision and control engineering, as well as a fusional development of protein science, imaging modalities and nano-technological devices, will also be introduced in this lecture.

 

Dr. Hongen Liao is Associate Professor of Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. He received the B.S. degree in mechanics and engineering sciences from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 1996, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical precision engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2000 and 2003, respectively. He was a Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). He has been a faculty member at the Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, since 2004.

 

His interests include 3D medical image, image-guided surgery, medical robotics and computer assisted surgery, and the fusion of these techniques for minimally invasive precision diagnosis and therapy. He has developed an autostereoscopic medical image named Integral Videography and implemented it in an image overlay system for surgical navigation and other aspects of image-guided surgery. He has also been involved in long viewing distance autostereoscopic display and 3D visualization. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, as well as over 190 abstracts and numerous invited lectures worldwide.

 

Dr. Liao was distinguished by receiving the government award [The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan). He is also the recipient of more than ten awards, including the OGINO Award (2007), the ERICSSON Young Scientist Award (2006), the IFMBE Young Investigators Awards presented by the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (2006) and the 6th Asian-Pacific Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering (2005), the Funai Information Science Award, the Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists, and several Best Paper Awards from different academic societies. His research is well funded by the MEXT, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, and the JSPS. He has also received numerous public and private foundation grants, including the Research Aid of Suzuken Memorial Foundation, the Inoue Foundation for Science, the Terumo Life Science Foundation, and the Secom Science and Technology Foundation. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE-EMBC Conference, Organization Chair of MIAR 2008, Program Chair of ACCAS 2008, and Tutorial co-chair of MICCAI 2009.