The project partners of the cross-border Franco-German joint project “5G-OR” have been gathered in Strasbourg to set the course for successful interdisciplinary cooperation. The project aims to create a Franco-German 5G-capableoperating room ecosystem for hospitals. After interesting presentations from the fields of medicine, telecommunications, AI, robotics, and medical technology, the participants worked intensively on the realization of the digital hospital.
The partners of the 5G-OR project are developing various 5G applications in the operating environment. The aim is to improve patient care in hospitals. The applications will be deployed in German and French facilities with 5G campus networks and validated in a realistic clinical environment.
Networking medical devices with powerful communication technologies such as 5G enables fast and structured collection of medical data and vital signs parameters. Aided by AI algorithms, the data can be interpreted close to real-time and can also be used for telemedical applications. In addition, robotic assistance systems can be used to provide support in everyday hospital life and thus relieve the burden on the medical staff. The solutions developed, such as the use of data-controlled and AI-supported surgery, are intended to improve surgical outcomes and increase patient safety. With the help of 5G campus networks, the required technical infrastructure is to be implemented in the operating rooms of the Charité Berlin, the Fraunhofer IPA in Mannheim, and the IHU Strasbourg.
The Institute of Image-Guided Surgery of Strasbourg is pleased to announce the nomination of six directors, as of April 7, 2022, on the occasion of the renewal of the college of qualified persons or representatives of the economic world.
Philippe Richert succeeds Arnold Munnich as Chairman of the Board of Directors. A senator between 1992 and 2010, he was minister in charge of local authorities from 2010 to 2012. He chaired the regional council of Alsace and then the Grand Est from 2010 to 2017 and the Régions de France association from 2016 to 2017.
Mr Pierre-Etienne BINDSCHEDLER, Chairman and CEO – Soprema
Ms Sylviane MULLER, Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Strasbourg (USIAS), holder of the Chair of Therapeutic Immunology, Director of the Strasbourg Institute of Medicine (IMS)
Ms Séverine SIGRIST, General and Scientific Director of Defymed
Mr Nicolas CARBONI, General Manager – Tellos Group
Mr Nicolas DEMARTINES, Professor of Medicine, Head of the Department of Visceral Surgery at CHUV (Lausanne)
We are very happy to announce the 1st Surgical Data Science (SDS) Summer School to be held in Strasbourg, France, from 18th – 22nd July 2022.
Recognizing the surge in Surgical Data Science research and the need for effective clinical translation, the SDS summer school aims to promote research and innovation of clinical value by educating clinicians and computer scientists on respective contexts, needs, tools and methodologies.
This first school organized by the Institute of Image-Guided Surgery, IHU-Strasbourg, and the University of Strasbourg will be focusing on endoscopic video analysis. Leading clinical and computers science experts from top institutions will cover subjects related to the clinical use of endoscopy and endoscopic video analysis, spanning from endoscopic instruments and data annotations all the way to advanced deep learning algorithms and the design of clinical translation studies.
Short online lectures on fundamentals of endoscopy and computer science will be freely accessible starting from 15th of March 2022 at: https://edu4sds.eve-evolving-education.eu/. Upon completing these fundamentals, prospective participants can apply to the onsite summer school consisting of a series of lectures, hands-on labs, and group projects. Twenty (20) selected computer scientists and clinicians will have the opportunity join us at Institute of Image-Guided Surgery, IHU-Strasbourg, from 18th – 22nd July 2022 to work in a truly multidisciplinary environment with unique clinical and computer science resources to come up with novel ideas and data science solutions of clinical value.
We invite early-career computer science and clinical researchers who are interested in diving into the exciting world of Surgical Data Science to visit www.edu4sds.org, review the program and learn more about the registration.
Applications close on 25th April 2022. Places are limited so early application is advised. Best wishes,
PRESSE RELEASE Berlin, Mannheim, Rennes, Reutlingen, Strasbourg and Tuttlingen February 3rd, 2022
5G-OR is one of the 4 winning projects jointly selected by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action in Germany and the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Relaunch in France for the call “Technical developments and application ecosystems for 5G private networks”.The joint Franco-German 5G-OR project takes up the challenge in the healthcare domain. It will explore the benefits of a 5G-enabled operating room ecosystem – a fundamental hospital component – to support medical and paramedical teams to improve patient outcome. The ambition is to strengthen Europe’s position in the 5G-enabled medical technology arena by establishing an innovation ecosystem for the development of new products and quality services.
Towards the hospital of the FUTURE
Digitisation is now being integrated into the modern hospital infrastructure. In this context, wireless communication technology is emerging as a central element of a hospital’s future environment with the need to achieve rapid and secure data transmission and analysis. The goal of 5G-OR is to create a demonstrator of a Franco-German 5G private network application ecosystem for hospitals with a specific focus on the Operating Room (OR) environment. The OR is a highly suitable environment to demonstrate the value of the intra-hospital 5G private network as it is the most concentrated node of healthcare complexity with data-dense and logistics-heavy requirements. In addition, the OR is the highest risk environment for patient safety and a major cost centre for the hospital.
5G-OR is centred around the development of the next generation of a 5G-enabled OR ecosystem intended to improve patient outcome. The underlying concept is that data-driven and Artificial Intelligence assisted surgery within a digital OR will enable more accurate and precise operations as well as fewer complications. The OR generates massive and disparate data from a multitude of sources. Here, the challenge is to make data usable for example by providing real-time feedback to medical staff. The 5G communication technology holds the capacity to enable efficient exploitation of the data generated in the OR. It is expected that efforts towards standardisation requirements for quality service and industrialisation will take the next-generation OR to a new level of service. 5G-OR will assemble these elements into a workable and reproducible package and subsequently validate its worth and interoperability with cross-border clinical use cases.
Four clinical use cases
The consortium has selected four use cases to be operated in the Franco-German 5G ecosystem to demonstrate the value of 5G private networks in the OR. The first two use cases tackle the decision-making in the OR for better patient safety through real-time analysis of massive data. The teams will use Artificial Intelligence to continuously analyse patient vital signs and surgical video, transmitted by 5G wireless medical devices for the detection of early warning signs of potential complications. Another use case pertains to remote-enabled robotic telesurgery powered by real-time data with the goal to perform remote cross-border robotic telesurgery using a 5G network connection. The fourth use case targets the optimisation of the complex logistics of the OR environment. The consortium will evaluate the benefits of 5G-enabled logistics support in the OR by autonomous mobile robotic assistant providing devices, materials, and instruments required for surgery.
A unique multidisciplinary consortium
The 5G-OR consortium is well balanced between R&D, Healthcare, and business. It is leveraging strong cooperation between complementary French and German partners, who have a common vision of the digital OR for better patient care. This includes hospitals and R&D centres : Institute Fraunhofer IPA in Mannheim, Institute of Image-Guided Surgery in Strasbourg, Institute of Research and Technology b<>com in Rennes, Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Reutlingen University, together with an innovative large company and SMEs : Karl Storz in Tuttlingen, SectorCon in Berlin and RDS in Strasbourg. Partners in 5G-OR are leaders in all aspects needed for the success of the project and have already made significant contributions to solving critical elements of this global vision.
Project profile
5G-OR – Establishing the next generation of a 5G-enabled operating room ecosystem to improve patient outcome, Project Link
Duration: Three years from January 1, 2022 Budget and Funding volume: Total Budget: 5,9 M€; Total Funding: TBD;
The scientific and medical teams at the IHU have just taken a major step in the international race towards the surgery of the future. They have successfully deployed an image analysis system driven in real time by computer software using Artificial Intelligence, to automatically control the progress of a minimally invasive operation on a patient.
During the operation performed by Prof. Didier Mutter on 25th November, a minimally invasive gallbladder removal, the video acquired by the endoscopic camera was analyzed in real time by Artificial Intelligence algorithms designed Prof. Nicolas Padoy and his team at IHU/University of Strasbourg. The software can follow all stages of the operation and movement of the instruments, recognize the anatomy, and automatically perform controls of the surgical scene at key steps. All the information can be communicated to the surgical team in the form of notifications or augmented reality images that are completely synchronous with the video of the operating field. The operation was broadcast live from one of the Strasbourg IHU operating rooms on the screens of the Digestive Surgery Congress in Rome and the World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Barcelona.
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Mr Pierre-Etienne BINDSCHEDLER,
Ms Sylviane MULLER,
Ms Séverine SIGRIST,
Mr Nicolas CARBONI,
Mr Nicolas DEMARTINES,
Mr Philippe RICHERT,
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