Masakatsu G. Fujie

is a Japanese scientist who has played a major role in cutting-edge research in biomedical engineering. He has been responsible for many advances in the field of robotics.

A longtime professor at Waseda University, he has led teams that have developed an intelligent mobile robot and a remote control manipulator, among many other devices. He made a significant contribution to the development of a medical treatment support system that helps in the recovery of human functions.

He has held leadership positions in a number of professional organizations and has helped establish UNESCO's World Academy of Biomedical Technology (WABT). He is currently doing "research that fuses cutting-edge science and engineering and sports sciences and is focused on the impending arrival of the super-aged society."

Career From 1971 to 1984, Fujie worked as a Researcher at the Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory at Hitachi Ltd. He was Senior Researcher in the same laboratory from 1984 to 1995,

Research Interests Robotics Robotic surgery Surgical Segment Navigator Medical, rehabilitation and assistive engineering Computer-assisted surgery Control engineering Intelligent mechatronics Watanabe, H.; Kanou, K.; Kobayashi, Y.; Fujie, M.G. Development of a "steerable drill" for ACL reconstruction to create the arbitrary trajectory of a bone tunnel. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Page(s): 955 – 960. Fujie and his co-authors described their development of "a steerable drill for ACL reconstruction to avoid LCL injury in the process of making a bone tunnel". Sekiguchi, Y.; Kobayashi, Y.; Tomono, Y.; Watanabe, H.; et al. Development of a tool manipulator driven by a flexible shaft for Single Port Endoscopic Surgery. 3rd IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics 2010. Page(s): 120 – 125. Fujie and his co-authors, describing the development of "a robotics system ... to assist in Single Port Endoscopic Surgery", proposed “a surgical endoscopic robot for SPS with dynamic vision control, the endoscopic view being manipulated by a master controller.” Yo Kobayashia, Akinori Onishib, Hiroki Watanabeb, Takeharu Hoshib, Kazuya Kawamuraa, Makoto Hashizumec, Masakatsu G. Fujie, et al. Development of an integrated needle insertion system with image guidance and deformation simulation. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2010, pp. 9–18. Fujie and his co-authors described their successful development of "an integrated system with image guidance and deformation simulation for the purpose of accurate needle insertion." Yo Kobayashi, Akinori Onishi, Takeharu Hoshi, Kazuya Kawamura, Makoto Hashizume, Masakatsu G. Fujie. Development and validation of a viscoelastic and nonlinear liver model for needle insertion. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. January 2009, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 53–63. Fujie and his co-authors described their effort “to develop and validate a viscoelastic and nonlinear physical liver model for organ model-based needle insertion, in which the deformation of an organ is estimated and predicted, and the needle path is determined with organ deformation taken into consideration.” Watanabe, H.; Kobayashi, Y.; Hashizume, M.; Fujie, M.G. Modeling the temperature dependence of thermophysical properties: Study on the effect of temperature dependence for RFA. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE. Page(s): 5100 – 5105. Fujie and his co-authors described their efforts "to develop a temperature dependent thermophysical liver model."