CARS – Tutorials, Workshops and Special Events

• 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
• 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
• 17:00 | Tutorial on CAD-PACS integration
• 11:00 | ISO Workshop on Service Robots in Surgery and Medicine
• 12:00 | Luncheon Symposium on Cognitive Methods for Image Classification
• 14:00 | 3rd CURAC / CARS / DGBMT Joint Workshop on Model Guided Therapy

08:00 Workshop on "Ultrasound Imaging in the Context of Image Guided Neurosurgery"
Wednesday, June 25, 2008; Room Merida

Session Chairs:
Christian Barillot (F), D. Louis Collins, PhD (CDN)

Image guided neurosurgical procedures rely on a complex preoperative planning and intraoperative environment. This includes various multimodal examinations: anatomical, vascular, functional explorations and an increasing number of computer-assisted intervnetions taking place in the Operating Room. Until recently, only a rigid fusion between the patient’s head and the preoperative data is preformed. Unfortunately, the assumption of a rigid registration between the patient’s head and the preoperative images only holds at the beginning of the procedure as soft tissues tend to deform during the neurosurgical procedures. While this is a common problem in many image-guided interventions, neurosurgery can be considered as a representative example. Recently, 3D ultrasound (3DUS) was introduced as a possible intraoperative modality for neurosurgery. This modality hardly affects the operating room logistics and is therefore easily accepted by the neurosurgeons. Recent advances in this field will be presented, both from the clinical point of view and from the methodological point of view.

09:30 Break