POWER OF INNOVATION

Left: Dr. Jun Okamoto, Assistant Professor (left) and Professor Yoshihiro Muragaki (right) of the Faculty of Advanced Techno- , Tokyo Women’s Medical University. As an authority in Cutting-edge Operating neurosurgery, Professor Muragaki is a world leader in advanced medical science. Okamoto is a developer of iArmS, a surgery support robot.

Right: Dr. Hideki Okuda, General Manager of the Medical Theater Connected by IoT Business Department at DENSO CORPORATION. After gaining experience in the automotive industry, he has now become involved in researching robotics for medical Previously, surgeons only had their individual skills to rely on. applications. He has earned a ph.D. in in the Now that has been transformed by high-tech in the surgical theater: graduate school of Tokyo Women’s Medical University. teamwork is led by Japanese medical science and middleware technology.

without reference to each other, but surgeon, and showing that on the “automobile” from just a mobility with SCOT, all the data generated screen, so that everything can be device to a service that utilizes during surgery are synchronized on accurately verified during and after applications. Medicine is part of the same time axis. The data can the operation. Information that was that—the age is coming where new then be shared over a network in previously known only to the veteran values are created by introducing the real time with a Surgical strategy surgeons is converted into data that IoT. In the near future, all the surgical desk, enabling diagnose by third other doctors can access.” data processed by SCOT will be stored The interior of Hyper SCOT parties. The system accommodates Another member of the development in an OPeLiNK database. Plans are at Tokyo Woman’s Medical University, equipped with telemedicine, allowing even a group, Hideki Okuda, General Manager also underway for a service in which leading-edge technology, relatively inexperienced physician of the Medical Business Department images of operations performed including a robot bed, open MRI, and organic to perform advanced surgical at DENSO CORPORATION, describes by top surgeons in Japan will be electroluminescent lighting. procedures under the guidance of how his company, an automotive rm, made available over the Internet as More than twenty medical a fully-experienced physician.” approached the eld of leading-edge educational material for medical devices are networked via OPeLiNK, forming a futuristic The platform for connecting all medicine. students in Japan and internationally. space resembling an aircraft the devices is the OPeLiNK® interface, “In the automotive business, Then, if huge amounts of data can pilot’s cockpit. sometimes called the “brains” safety and human lives matter more be stored in an accessible way, AI *SCOT® is a registered trademark of Tokyo Women’s Medical University. of SCOT. The core technology of than anything else. Accordingly, the naturally comes into play. And SCOT *OPeLiNK® is a registered trademark of DENSO CORPORATION. OPeLiNK is ORiN (Open Resource Japanese automobile manufacturing has already cleared the first hurdles interface for the Network), which sector, with its overriding concern for that to happen.” is industrial middleware that is for safety and reliability, is already Now that it is equipped with now being used in smart factories has the right affinity for designing OPeLiNK, the most practical platform he world debut is soon coming SCOT is an advanced system that first time to conduct a brain surgery around the world. The driving medical solutions that save human in the world, the day is not far off for the futuristic Smart integrates an open MRI scanner and in February, with successful results forces behind the development of lives as well. The automotive industry when SCOT will become the primary T ® Cyber Operating Theater (SCOT ), a Surgical navigation system with that confirm the value of this SCOT were DENSO CORPORATION, already expanding its concept of an used in operating theaters globally. in which Japanese technology other medical devices used during approach. a well-known Japanese automotive companies bring their expertise, surgery, such as a rapid diagnostic Professor Yoshihiro Muragaki of components manufacturer, and such as utilizing the Internet of test system, a 4K3D microscope the Faculty of Advanced Techno- Professor Muragaki’s team. Jun Things (IoT), to the site of leading- monitor, and a surgeon’s cockpit. Surgery at the Tokyo Women’s Okamoto, a Ph.D. in engineering edge medical practice. When the A prototype was constructed in 2016, Medical University, explains the who is part of the team, says, Ultra high-de nition medical devices and equipment in an and a fully-networked standard significance of the break-through. “Surgical navigation is like an 4K monitors showing operating theater are connected and model was announced last year. This “Until now, operating theaters automotive navigation system comprehensive information from various linked to a network, vast amount of year, Hyper SCOT, the newest version, have been full of equipment working because it shows the exact location medical devices within data concerning the progress of the designed to incorporate advances in independently of each other, and of the body being operated on. But the SCOT theater. The operation and the ’s condition robotics and AI, became available for data obtained from it also acts like a flight recorder on surgery navigation screen, along with ECG can be comprehensively processed clinical research at Tokyo Women’s the patient, images of the surgical an airplane, keeping a record of all (electrocardiogram) and to improve the precision and safety Medical University, whose staff used field, and the operating condition the details, such as the path of an other physiological data, can be shared with of the surgical procedure. the newly integrated system for the of the devices have been displayed electrical cautery knife used by the distant medical centers.

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