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

16:30 Surgical Modelling, Simulation and Education – SMSE
Friday, June 27; Room Barcelona

Session Chairs:
Kevin Cleary, PhD (USA), Javier Herrero Jover, MD, PhD (E)

16:30 Development of a training simulator for ultrasound-guided procedures
K. Cleary, S. Kankanala, Georgetown Univ. Medical Center, Washington, DC, J.R. Duncan, Mallinckrodt Inst. of Radiology, Saint Louis, MO, K. Sharma, (USA), K. Strulik, Univ. of Lübeck (D)

16:45 Towards understanding the suture/ligature skills during the training process by using WKS-2RII
J. Solis, N. Oshima, H. Ishii, A. Takanishi, Waseda Univ., Tokyo, N. Matsuoka, K. Hatake, KyotoKagaku Ltd., Kyoto (J)

17:00 KisGrid - a new network for surgery training
H. Maass, H.K. Cakmak, U.G. Kühnapfel, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, N. Ritter, Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery (ICCAS), Leipzig (D)

17:15 Automatic facial feature extraction and 3D face modeling using calibrated images for surgical analyzing
M. Shamsi, M.R. Asharif, H. Kuang, H. Sunakawa, The Ryukyus Univ., Okinawa (J), R. Aghaeizateh Zoroofi, C. Lucas,
M. Sadeghi Hasanabadi, Univ. of Tehran (IR)

17:30 ViCoM - a tool for monitoring, communication and supervision within a grid network for surgical training
U. Kühnapfel, H.K. Cakmak, H. Maass, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (D)

17:45 End of Session