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

11:00 ISO Workshop on Service Robots in Surgery and Medicine
Saturday, June 28, 2008; Room Kursaal

Session Chair:
Gurvinder S. Virk (UK)

11:00 Welcome and Introduction
G.S. Virk, Clawar Ltd., Sheffield (UK)

11:10 Service robotics
S. Moon, Sejong Univ., Seoul (ROK)

11:30 The changing robot vocabulary
R. Gelin, CEA List, Fontenay-aux-Roses (F)

11:45 Robots in personal care
G.S. Virk, Clawar Ltd., Sheffield (UK)

12:15 Medical/surgical robotics in Germany
M. Hägele, J. Stallkamp, Fraunhofer Inst. for Production Systems and Design Technology, Stuttgart (D)

12:30 Break

14:00 Medical robot research in UK
M.O. Tokhi, Univ. of Sheffield, K. Bouazza-Marouf, Univ. of Loughborough (UK)

14:15 Medical robot research in Korea
S.-G. Lee, Kyung Hee Univ., Seoul (ROK)

14:30 Medical robot research in USA
A. Azad, North Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (USA)

14:45 Medical robot research in Japan
K. Chinzei, National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba (J)

15:00 Structured discussion

15:50 Future actions

16:00 End of workshop

16:00 DICOM WG 24 “DICOM in Surgery” meeting jointly with ISO TC184/SC2 Robots and Robotic Devices in Surgery and Medicine

18:00 End of Meeting