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Technical Committee on Medical Mechatronics
Advances in the life sciences and in medical technology have positioned bio-medical technology as a major driver in the global knowledge-based economies. A successful medical intervention depends not only on the capability or experience of clinicians, but also the adequacy of medical instruments and devices. In addition, the technical aids and assistive devices for elderly or disabled are getting more attention for aging society all over the world, and they are widely used in daily life. As a result, medical mechatronics becomes an important emerging technology in the 21st century. The mission of the Medical Mechatronics Technical Committee is to establish a medical mechatronics research gateway that provides a platform for sharing the specialized knowledge, experiences and results in the area of medical mechatronics internationally. In addition, the TC on Medical Mechatronics would endeavor to foster research, development, training and dissemination of the art and science of medical devices and modalities.
The co-chairs (from left to right above) of the TC are Dr. Ming-Yih Lee (Chang Gung University), Dr. Yi-Hung Liu (Chung Yuan Christian University) and Dr. Chung-Hsien Kuo (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology). The TC currently includes 64 members from 9 countries who are active researchers in this emerging area, and has organized special sessions on medical mechatronics in many conferences, in which most were sponsored by the IEEE SMC Society. The TC is focused on the design and development of the emerging technologies of medical mechatronics systems for clinical applications. Topics include: Smart medical devices; Body sensor networks, Rehabilitation systems, Brain-computer interfaces; Medical robots; Intelligent wheelchairs; Healthcare systems; Medical instruments; Telemedicine systems; and intelligent methods or algorithms which can be embedded into the medical mechatronics systems.
Our goals for the next five years include increasing the number of members, organizing special sessions at IEEE SMC conferences and other flagship conferences, publishing special issues of medical mechatronics on journals, and consolidating events such as workshops, competitions, and panels to facilitate university- university/industry interactions.
Three of our most important papers in the last three years (2010-2012) are:
1. S.S.Hung and M.Y.Lee," Function assessment of novel robot for reduction of lower limb fractures," International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, DOI: 10.1002/rcs.351, September 2010.
2. Y. H. Liu, Y. C. Liu, and Y. J. Chen, "Fast support vector data descriptions for novelty detection," IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1296-1313, 2010.
3. C.H. Kuo, C.T. Chen, T.S. Chen, and Y.C. Kuo, "e-Plus Solutions for a Bilateral Arm Trainer with Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 1214 - 1225, 2012.
