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Center for Computer Aided Surgery
The ARTORG Center for Computer Aided Surgery (CCAS) is a joint technological and clinical research effort within the ARTORG Center of the University of Bern and the Inselspital (Medical Faculty of the University of Bern). CCAS connects technological expertise in the areas of computer aided surgery, diagnosis, medical image processing and smart instruments with clinical problems and motivations. The bandwith of our research activities ranges from answering novel clinical challenges to improving existing approaches and medical technology with competences from a purely algorithmic developments across component and systems development all the way to clinical validation (through our clinical network).
CCAS envisions to support society and its healthcare system for the challenges to come (demographic, economic, socio-cultural) by the enhancement and integration of novel technology, improving its availability for patients and indications and demonstrating its clinical benefit respectively.
The center aims on creating a powerful network of scientists with engineering and medical backgrounds with a awareness for the possibilities of one anothers side: Engineers with expertise on clinical problems, workflows and methodologies as well as clinicians with understanding of technological approaches, possibilities. Together, both sides can and will create novel diagnosis and therapy solutions with real clinical impact. CCAS is co-directed by two experts from the scientific and clinical disciplines, respectively.
