AN OVERVIEW OF COMPUTER-INTEGRATED SURGERY AT THE IBM THOMAS J. WATSON RESEARCH-CENTER

This paper describes some past and current research activities at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, We begin with a brief overview o f the emerging field of computer-integrated surgery, followed by a res earch strategy that enables a computer-oriented research laboratory su ch as ours to participate in this emerging field. We then present high lights of our past and current research in four key areas-orthopaedics , craniofacial surgery, minimally invasive surgery, and medical modeli ng-and elaborate on the relationship of this work to emerging topics i n computer-integrated surgery.