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

14:00 3rd CURAC / CARS / DGBMT Joint Workshop on Model Guided Therapy
Wednesday, June 25, 2008; Room Kursaal

Session Chair:
Volkmar Falk, MD (D), Thomas Becks (D), Heinz U. Lemke, PhD (D)

In general, present Image-Guided Therapy (IGT) systems are mainly applied or are limited in their scope to specific surgical workflows. In these “Island Solutions”, patient modelling is narrowed down to the use of one or two medical imaging modalities. Increasingly however, many different types of anatomic, physiologic, biologic, pathologic and technical data, information and knowledge sources relating to the patient are available.

Model-Guided Therapy (MGT) implies the IT supported integration of these sources by means of generic and patient-specific models as well as their application in the planning and execution of interventions. MGT extends the tools for diagnosis and therapy presently based on an image-centric world view with a model-centric world view.

The definition of a Patient-Specific Model (PSM) and its embedding in the surgical workflow is a very demanding research and development task for clinical and technical experts. In turn, the conception and design of appropriate data structures for the PSM and surgical assist systems for its management are mainly informatic and engineering activities. Both, the clinical and the technical tasks can only be successfully accomplished in an interdisciplinary and international cooperation.

The CURAC / CARS / DGBMT Workshops and a planned position paper on MGT are intended to support R&D activities in this exciting new field. Selected speakers from CURAC, CARS and DGBMT as well as some international experts will present and discuss issues related to MGT generally, and the PSM specifically.

14:00 Methodological frameworks for patient models
P. Jannin, Univ. of Rennes (F)

14:15 Model guided therapy for cardiovascular surgery
V. Falk, Univ. Hosp. Leipzig (D)

14:30 Model guided therapy - actual finding and future funding options: national and international
T. Becks, German Society for Biomedial Engineering (DGBMT) within VDE, Frankfurt (D)

14:45 Features of patient specific models
H.U. Lemke, Univ. of Leipzig, O. Dössel, Technical Univ. of Karlsruhe (D)

15:00 Short presentations on position paper on MGT
Authors of position paper

15:30 Summary of position paper on MGT
J. Meixensberger, Univ. Hosp. Leipzig (D)

15:45 Break

16:00 Panel Discussion
Representatives from CURAC, CARS, DGBMT, J.W. Haller, National Inst. of Health, Bethesda, MD, H. Yoshida, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, M.W. Vannier, Univ. of Chicago Medical Center (USA), P. Jannin, Univ. of Rennes (F), O.M. Ratib, Univ. Hosp. of Geneva (CH), and representatives from industry

18:00 End of session