CARS 2021 Topics

1^st Announcement available for download as pdf file

35^th International Congress and
Exhibition on Computer Assisted Radiology (CAR)

Chair: Ulrich Bick, MD (DE)

• Medical Imaging, e.g. DR, CT, MR, Virtual Endoscopy, US, SPECT, PET and Molecular Imaging
• Computer Assisted Cardiovascular Imaging
• Image Processing and Display
• Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers
• Medical Workstations
• Interventional Radiology
• Minimally Invasive Spinal Therapy
• Image Guided Diagnosis and Therapy of the Prostate
• Ablation Therapies
• Image Guided Radiation Therapy
• Nanotechnology for Imaging and Therapy
• Telemedicine, E-health and Multimedia EPR
• Expert Systems and Computer Assisted Education
• Economic and Management Issues
• Security, Legal and Ethical Aspects
• PACS Architecture, Workstation Design and Workflow
• Image Distribution, Storage and Archiving Strategies
• Interoperability and Standardization
• Managing Radiation Dose and Contrast Media
• Clinical Decision Support Systems

25^th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery (ISCAS)

President: Kensaku Mori, PhD (JP)

• Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality for Surgery and Interventions
• Image Processing and Visualization
• Intraoperative Devices and Sensors
• Intraoperative Imaging
• Computer-assisted Planning
• Surgical Navigation
• Navigated Control
• Surgical Robotics and Instrumentation
• 3D Modelling and Rapid Prototyping
• Methods of Validation and Verification
• Evaluation of CAS Systems
• Postoperative Result Assessment
• Surgical Knowledge and Decision Management
• Decision and Action Support in Surgical Management
• Situation Awareness in the OR
• Surgical Skill Assessment
• Surgical Workflow Analysis
• Surgical Simulation, Education and Training
• Ergonomics, User Interfaces, Haptics and Multimodal Devices in Surgical Applications
• Brain-Computer Interface, Neurostimulation
• Computer aided surgery in neuro, ENT, orthopaedic and spinal, cardiovascular, thoracic, gastroenterological, gynaecological, and urological surgery
• Image Guided Navigation Surgery
• Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery
• Image Guided Therapy

23^rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Artificial Intelligence

Chair: Hiroyuki Yoshida, PhD (US)

• Deep Learning / Machine Learning
• Radiomics
• CAD for Precision Medicine
• 3D Printing
• Grand Challenges in CAD
• Quantitative Imaging
• Risk Assessment
• Decision Support Systems
• Comparative Evaluation and Fusing CAD systems
• Content-based Image Retrieval
• Observer Performance Studies
• Clinical Evaluation
• Cloud CAD
• CAD for Breast, Lung, Colon and Gastrointestinal Tract, Eye/Retina, Head and Neck, Liver, Prostate, Musculoskeletal, (Cardio-)Vascular, Multiple Organ Systems, and Dentistry
• CAD for Oncology
• CAD for Histopathology and Microscopy

27^th Computed Maxillofacial Imaging Congress (CMI)

Chair: Christos Angelopoulos, PhD (US)
Co-chair: Yoshihiko Hayakawa, PhD (JP)

• New Imaging Devices and Novel Applications
• Evidence-based Selection Criteria in Digital Maxillofacial Imaging
• Craniomaxillofacial Computer-Aided Diagnosis
• Maxillofacial Image Processing
• Cranial and Maxillofacial Image Guided Surgery
• Image Navigated Dental Implantology
• Orthodontic and Endodontic Applications of Computed Imaging
• Imaging and Modelling for Maxillofacial Prosthodontics
• Cone Beam and Multislice CT
• Maxillofacial MRI and Ultrasound Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Image Fusion and Subtraction
• 3D and 4D Imaging
• Multi-dimensional Maxillofacial Modelling
• Virtual Reality and Dental Robotics
• Interoperability and Maxillofacial Applications in IHE

12^th Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Intervention (IPCAI)

General Chairs: Lena Maier-Hein, PhD (DE), Tim Salcudean, PhD (CA), Stefanie Speidel, PhD (DE)

• Surgical Data Science
• Interventional Imaging
• Systems and Software
• Evaluation and Validation
• Tracking and Navigation
• Interventional Robotics
• Surgical Planning and Simulation
• Advanced Intra-operative Visualization and User Interfaces
• Augmented Reality for Medical Applications
• Surgical Skill Analysis and Workflow

22^nd IFCARS / SPIE / ISCAS Joint Workshop on the Digital Operating Room (DOR)

Chairs: Yoshihiro Muragaki, MD (JP), Heinz U. Lemke, PhD (DE), Dirk Wilhelm, MD (DE)

• Surgical Workflow
• Intelligent Operating Room
• Therapy Imaging and Model Management Systems
• Surgical PACS
• Interoperability, DICOM and IHE in Surgery
• Management and Assessment of OR Systems Integration
• Architectures of ORs and Interventional Suite

5^th ISCAS / CAD / IFCARS Joint Symposium on Multidisciplinary Computational Anatomy (MCA)

Chairs: Makato Hashizume, MD (JP), Hiroyuki Yoshida, PhD (US), Heinz U. Lemke, PhD (DE)

• Micro-computational Anatomy
• Physiological Modeling in Multi-computational Anatomy
• Surgery Using Multi-computational Anatomy
• Mathematical Foundation of Multi-disciplinary Computational Anatomy
• Robotics and Multi-disciplinary Computational Anatomy
• Multi-disciplinary Computational Anatomy Assisting Radiology

13^th CARS Clinical Day

Chairs: Leonard Berliner, MD (US), Eric vanSonnenberg, MD (US), Hubertus Feussner, MD (DE)

• Clinical Innovations in Imaging and Interventional Radiology
• Clinical Innovations in Surgery
• The Future: Impact of Engineering/Informatics in Radiology and Surgery
• Computer Assisted Radiology and Minimally Invasive Therapy
• Results of Innovative Clinical Investigations