TKI-LSH PPS Allowance PROPEL project awarded Personalized Robotic surgery Optimization through Precision and Enhanced ModeLing (PROPEL)

The University of Twente, in collaboration with Radboud University Medical Center and Stryker – a world’s leading medical technology company, will focus on advancing and accelerating methods for pre-planning knee implants in total knee replacement surgery. The goal is to enable orthopaedic surgeons to respect the individual patient’s knee anatomy and movement patterns much better than before.

As part of this project, the Biomechanical Engineering group (Dr.ir. Periklis Tzanetis and Prof.dr.ir. Nico Verdonschot) will collaborate with the Mathematics of Imaging & AI group (Dr. Jelmer Wolterink) to develop AI-driven methods to accelerate mechanistic musculoskeletal models, allowing real-time pre-planning for knee surgeons. In the context of this collaboration, a PhD student will be appointed at the Orthopaedic Research Department of Radboud University Medical Center, and a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Twente.