Conference detail

CARS Conference Office · 79790 Kuessaberg, Germany · office@cars-int.org

The CARS congress is the annual event for a distinguished international community of scientists, engineers and physicians to present and discuss the key innovations that shape modern medicine on a worldwide basis.

The four-day congress consists of invited talks by internationally recognized experts, approx. 200 paper presentations, as well as exhibits and posters. Special focus sessions as well as product exhibits in the industrial exhibition are planned to give participants access to hot topics and new CARS-related products.

Tutorials, workshops and special events related to the above topics complement the regular sessions of CARS and are organized under the auspices of the International Foundation of CARS.

Congress Topics

Relevant research and developments in Radiology, Surgery, Dentistry, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering and Modelling including but not limited to:

32nd International Congress and Exhibition on Computer Assisted Radiology (CAR)

Co-chair: Kiyonari Inamura, PhD (J)

• 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

22nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery

President: Pierre Jannin, PhD (F)

• 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

• Clinical specialties:

Computer aided surgery in neurosurgery, ENT surgery, orthopaedic and spinal surgery, cardiovascular surgery, thoracic surgery, gastroenterological surgery, gynaecological surgery, urological surgery

• Image Guided Navigation Surgery

• Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery

• Image Guided Therapy

20th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Diagnosis

Chairman: Hiroyuki Yoshida, PhD (USA)

• 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

24th Computed Maxillofacial Imaging Congress

Chairman: Christos Angelopoulos, PhD (USA)

Co-chair: Yoshihiko Hayakawa, PhD (J)

• 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 Imaging

• Image Fusion and Subtraction

• 3D and 4D Imaging

• Multi-dimensional Maxillofacial Modelling

• Virtual Reality and Dental Robotics

• Interoperability and Maxillofacial Applications in IHE

9th Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Intervention (IPCAI)

Chairs: Kensaku Mori, PhD (J), Parvin Mousavi, PhD (CDN), Danail Stoyanov, PhD (UK)

• 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

20th IFCARS / SPIE / ISCAS Joint Workshop on the Digital Operating Room

Chairmen: Yoshihiro Muragaki, MD (J), Heinz U. Lemke, PhD (D)

• Surgical Workflow

• Intelligent Operating Room

• Therapy Imaging and Model Management Systems

• Surgical PACS

• DICOM and IHE in Surgery

• Management and Assessment of OR Systems Integration

• Architectures of ORs and Imaging Suites

10th EPMA / IFCARS Workshop on Personalized Medicine and ICT

Chairpersons: Olga Golubnitschaja, MD (D), Heinz U. Lemke, PhD (D)

• Model-Guided Medicine

• Patient-Specific Modelling

• Model Management

• Clinical Examples of Personalized Medicine in Oncology

IFCARS / ICCAS Workshop on Integrated Patient Care

Chairs: Andreas Dietz, MD (D), Heinz U. Lemke, PhD (D)

• CARS, Oncology and Digital Pathology

• Tumor Boards

• Unified Inference Frameworks

• Clinical Decision Support Systems

3rd ISCAS / CAD / IFCARS Joint Symposium on Multidisciplinary Computational Anatomy

Chairmen: Makoto Hashizume, MD (J), Hiroyuki Yoshida, PhD (USA), Heinz U. Lemke, PhD (D)

• 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

11th CARS Clinical Day

Chairmen: Leonard Berliner, MD (USA), Eric vanSonnenberg, MD (USA), Hubertus Feussner, MD (D)

• 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