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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

CARS Clinical Day (Room Berlin)

• 08:00 | Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery – MISS
• 10:00 | Computer Assisted Treatment of the Prostate – PRO
  
• 12:00 | The Interventional Radiology Suite of the Future – IRS
• 15:45 | Interventional Oncology – IO

CARS – Tutorials, Workshops and Special Events

Room Kursaal

• 08:00 | Tutorial on MWS
• 09:00 | NIH / NCI / CARS / EMA Special Session on Imaging as a Biomarker for Therapy Response
• 11:00 | Research Training Group 1126: Intelligent Surgery
• 14:00 | 3rd CURAC / CARS / DGBMT Joint Workshop on Model Guided Therapy

Room Merida

• 08:00 | Workshop on Ultrasound Imaging in the Context of Image Guided Neurosurgery
• 09:45 | Workshop on Surgical Workflow@CARS 2008
• 11:30 | Tutorial on Validation
• 14:00 | Open Source Software Tutorial: Should I Join the Open Source Movement? 
• 17:00 | Tutorial on CAD-PACS Integration

Thursday, June 26, 2008

CARS Opening (Room Barcelona)

• 08:00 | Welcome
• 08:30 | 10th Anniversary of CAD – Achievements and challenges of CAD

22nd International Congress on CAR (Room Estocolmo)

• 09:00 | Digital Imaging – DI
• 11:45 | Computed Tomography – CT
• 14:00 | Magnetic Resonance – MR
• 15:45 | Cardiac and Vascular Imaging – CVI

12th Annual Conference of ISCAS (Room Barcelona)

• 09:00 | Computer Assisted Neurosurgery – CANS
• 11:00 | Computer Assisted Head and Neck, and ENT Surgery – ENT-HN
• 14:00 | Cardiovascular Surgery – CVS
• 16:00 | Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery – CAOS

26th International EuroPACS Meeting (Room Berlin)

• 09:00 | Memorial Lecture for Sam Dwyer
• 09:30 | Image Distribution and Integration Strategies – IDIS
• 11:30 | Regional PACS and Telemedicine – TR-TM
• 15:00 | PACS – Beyond Radiology and E-Learning – BR-EL
• 17:00 | Workflow and Standardization – WF-ST

10th International Workshop on CAD (Room Kursaal)

• 09:00 | Tutorial on CAD
  
• 10:30 | Special Session on Breast CAD – BCAD
• 14:30 | Special Interactive Session on Breast CAD
• 16:00 | Panel Discussion

CARS – Tutorials, Workshops and Special Events (Room Kursaal)

• 12:15 | Luncheon Seminar on Cognitive Methods for Image Classification

Friday, June 27, 2008

12th Annual Conference of ISCAS (Room Barcelona)

• 08:00 | Image Processing and Visualization – IPV
• 13:00 | ISCAS General Assembly
• 14:00 | Surgical Robotics, Instrumentation and Navigation – SRIN
• 16:30 | Surgical Modelling, Simulation and Education – SMSE

10th International Workshop on CAD (Room Kursaal)

• 08:30 | Special Session on Thoracic CAD – TCAD
• 10:30 | Special Session on Abdominal CAD – ACAD
• 16:00 | Special Session on Brain CAD – BNCAD

14th Computed Maxillofacial Imaging Congress (Room Berlin)

• 08:30 | Orthodontics, Dentofacial Orthopedics and Airway – ODOA
• 10:30 | Imaging and Treating Temporomandibular Joint Conditions – ITT
• 14:00 | Tutorial on CMI: Approaches to Maxillofacial Cone Beam CT Practice
• 14:30 | Special Session: Maxillofacial Cone Beam CT – MCB
• 15:00 | Round Table Discussion on Cone Beam Computed Tomography
• 16:00 | Craniomaxillofacial Image Fusion and CBCT Incidental Findings – CIF

9th CARS/SPIE/EuroPACS Joint Workshop on Surgical PACS and the Digital Operating Room (Room Estocolmo)

• 08:00 | Digital Operating Room - DOR
• 09:30 | Roundtable on Communication Media for the OR

1st CARS / TicSalut / EuroPACS Educational Course on the Digital Operating Room (Room Estcolmo)

• 10:00 | OR Problems and Solution Concepts
• 11:00 | Digital Systems in the OR
• 12:30 | Examples of Surgical Workflows and Digital Assist Systems
• 15:00 | Modern Digital Communication Infrastructures in the OR
• 16:15 | E-health Methods in the OR
• 17:30 | Informatic Standards in the OR
• 18:15 | Round Table on Quality and Cost of Modern Digital Technologies in the OR

Saturday, June 28, 2008

12th Annual Conference of ISCAS (Room Barcelona)

• 09:00 | Image Guided Intervention of the Liver – IGIL
• 11:00 | Endoscopy and Related Techniques – ENDO
• 14:00 | Workflow and New Concepts in Surgery – WFNC

14th Computed Maxillofacial Imaging Congress (Room Kursaal)

• 09:00 | Image Guided Craniomaxillofacial Procedures – IGCP

22nd International Congress on CAR (Room Berlin)

• 08:00 | Computer Assisted Radiation Therapy – CART
• 09:30 | Image Processing and Display – IPD

CARS – Tutorials, Workshops and Special Events (Room Kursaal)

• 11:00 | ISO Workshop on Service Robots in Surgery and Medicine
• 16:00 | DICOM WG 24

JICARS – Japanese Institutes of CARS – Special Sessions (Room Estcolmo)

• 08:00 | JICARS Session on Surgical Robotics
  
• 10:15 | JICARS Session on Computer Aided Diagnosis

Poster Session

• ICCAS Poster No.: 001-091
• EuroPACS Poster No.: 092-110
• CAR Poster No.: 111-171
• CAR-IPD Poster No.: 172-209
• CAD Poster No.: 210-225
• CMI Poster No.: 226-239
• CARS Poster No.: 240-245

No liability can be accepted for any errors. The program is subject to alteration.

CARS OPENiNG

08:00 Welcome
Thursday, June 26, 2008; Room Barcelona

Heinz U. Lemke, PhD
Organizer CARS 2008

Javier Herrero Jover, MD, PhD
President CARS 2008

Stanley Baum, MD
Chairman, Computer Assisted Radiology, 22nd International Congress and Exhibition (CAR)

Takeyoshi Dohi, PhD
President, 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery (ISCAS)

Jarmo Reponen, MD
President, 26th International EuroPACS Meeting (EuroPACS)

Kunio Doi, PhD
Chairman, 10th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD)

Allan G. Farman, PhD, DSc
Chairman, 14th Computed Maxillofacial Imaging Congress (CMI)

08:30 10th Anniversary of CAD – Achievements and challenges of CAD
Thursday, June 26, 2008; Room Barcelona

Keynote Speaker: K. Doi, Univ. of Chicago Hospitals (USA)

Session Chairs:

Kiyonari Inamura, PhD (J)
Wolfgang Schlegel, PhD (D)

08:00 Real-time control strategy for collision avoidance and seed deposition in EUCLIDIAN brachytherapy robotic system
I. Buzurovic, V. Misic, T. Podder, Y. Hu, K. Yan, R. Valicenti, A. Dicker, Y. Yu, Thomas Jefferson Univ., Philadelphia, PA, E. Messing, D. Rubens, J. Strang, Univ. of Rochester Medical Center, L. Liao, Cooper Univ. Hosp., Camden, NJ (USA), W.-S. Ng, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Singapore (SGP)

08:15 A family of linear algorithms for the prediction of respiratory motion in image-guided radiotherapy
F. Ernst, A. Schweikard, Univ. of Lübeck (D)

08:30 Virtual simulator for customized cancer radiation treatment planning
O. Kum, S. Kim, Kyungpook National Univ., Daegu, Y. Han, Sungkyunkwan Univ. School of Medicine, Seoul (ROK)

08:45 A simulation and training environment for robotic radiosurgery
A. Schläfer, Stanford Univ. (USA), J. Gill, A. Schweikard, Univ. of Lübeck (D)

09:00 DICOM handling tools for Geant4-based radiotherapy simulation
A. Kimura, Ashikaga Inst. of Technology (J)