12th Annual Conference of the
International Society for Computer Aided Surgery

• 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
• 08:00 | Image Processing and Visualization – IPV
• 14:00 | Surgical Robotics, Instrumentation and Navigation – SRIN
• 16:30 | Surgical Modelling, Simulation and Education – SMSE
• 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
• ISCAS Poster No.: 001-091

14:00 Cardiovascular Surgery – CVS
Thursday, June 26; Room Barcelona

Session Chairs:
Volkmar Falk, MD (D), Jose Luis Pomar, MD, PhD (E)

14:00 The role of ICT in cardiovascular surgery
Invited Speaker: V. Falk, Univ. Hosp. Leipzig (D)

14:15 Towards navigation on the heart surface during coronary arterty bypass grafting
C. Gnahm, C. Hartung, K. Dietmayer, Univ. of Ulm, R. Friedl, M. Hoffmann, Univ. Hosp. of Ulm (D)

14:30 Inside the beating heart: an in vivo feasibility porcine study on fusing pre- and intraoperative imaging for surgical guidance
C.A. Linte, J. Moore, C. Wedlake, T.M. Peters, Robarts Research Inst., D. Bainbridge, D.L. Jones, Univ. of Western Ontario,
G.M. Guiraudon, Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics, London, Ontario (CDN)

14:45 Value of augmented reality enhanced transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) for determining optimal annuloplasty ring size during mitral valve repair
S. Jacobs, D. Holzhey, V. Falk, Heartcenter Leipzig (D)

15:00 A MRI compatible robotic delivery module for transapical aortic valve replacement
D. Mazilu, M. Li, K. Horvath, National Inst. of Health, Bethesda, MD (USA)

15:15 Multimodality fusion of soft-tissue imaging volumes with vascular angiograms based on anatomical models for cardiac resynchronization therapies
R. Manzke, R. Chan, Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, NY, F. Tournoux, M.D. Handschumacher,
J. Singh, Mass General Hosp., Boston, MA  (USA)

15:30 Image guidance for coronary artery bypass grafting
C. Hartung, C. Gnahm, K. Dietmayer, Univ. of Ulm, R. Friedl, M. Hoffmann, Univ. Hosp. Ulm (D)

15:45 Break