סמינר מיוחד

 Prof. Yohan Payan,

TIMC-IMAG, Univ. Grenoble Alpes / CNRS, Grenoble France

Biomechanics for computer-assisted medical interventions

CNRS Research Director, Yohan Payan has developed a research team dedicated to

biomechanics for Computer Assisted Surgery and received the 2012 Senior Price of the

French Biomechanics Society. During the last fifteen years, he has co-supervised 30 PhD

students, written 300 papers and edited two books. During the same period, his

international experience was strong since he spent two sabbatical years in Chile (Univ. of

Santiago) and Canada (UBC, Vancouver) and was invited as a keynote speaker in twenty

international conferences. Yohan Payan has also developed an important link with industrial

applications, being the inventor of 15 international patents. He was the coordinator of the

ANR TecSan “Inteligent Diabetic Sock” project (2010-2014) that led to the creation of the

Texisense Company, laureate of the French National Price for Innovative Industries in the

domain of pressure ulcer prevention.

Currently, Yohan Payan is the head of the Grenoble CAMI team (Computer Assisted Medical

Interventions – 50 people) and the deputy director of TIMC-IMAG Laboratory (wwwtimc.

imag.fr – 250 people). He also coordinates the Eccami platform (www.eccami.org).

Abstract of the presentation:

The clinical objective of CAMI is to develop systems that assist the physician in the practice

of minimally invasive diagnostic or therapeutic actions. The main scientific objectives that

result from this clinical goal include the design and development of (1) reconstruction

methods, image processing and data fusion, (2) models describing organs and clinical

procedures, (3) simulators enabling action planning, monitoring and prediction of outcomes;

and finally (4) guiding systems to realize an action as planned. Industrial dissemination of the

research results is also an objective of the CAMI team.

Yohan Payan’s research interests concern the biomechanical modeling of soft tissues as well

as some cognitive aspects when devices have to be designed and accepted by patients

(mainly in the context of rehabilitation). The public lecture will introduce the field of

Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions (CAMI) while focusing on the areas of Yohan

Payan’s research expertise, namely the biomechanical modeling of soft tissues. He will

describe the main challenges researchers face in the future, i.e. the automatic generation of

patient-specific models of organs and the integration of simulation tools into medical

devices enabling real-time computations of these models. These challenges will be

illustrated in the domains of plastic and maxillofacial surgery and procedures for the

prevention of pressure ulcers (in paraplegic patients and diabetic persons).