Miccai 2008 Systems and Architecture Workshop
Contents
Systems and Architectures for Computer Assisted Interventions
- Location: Kimmel Center, Room 406, New York, NY
- Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008
- Time: 9am - 6pm
The goal of this workshop is to establish a forum for discussing open source toolkits and open interfaces and how they have been applied in the development of computer assisted intervention systems. The intent is to establish a dialogue between the open source community, industry, and researchers in the field. The workshop will include presentations and panel discussions about: 1) existing open source toolkits, 2) open (research) interfaces to medical products, and 3) integrated systems for computer assisted interventions.
One outcome of the workshop will be a technical paper (white paper) that will be submitted for review to the International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery. If completed by Oct 2, 2008, the paper will be considered for a special issue on New Technologies.
Organizers
- Peter Kazanzides, Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (CISST ERC), Johns Hopkins University
- Nobuhiko Hata, National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT), Brigham & Women’s Hospital
- Luis Ibanez, Kitware, Inc.
Important Dates
Notification of acceptance has been moved to July 29 so that the final program can be announced before the MICCAI early registration deadline. The Insight Journal allows public peer review to be done at any time.
- July 21, 2008: deadline for paper submissions via the Insight Journal
- July 29, 2008: notification of acceptance for presentation
- September 6, 2008: workshop
Submission Information
We are soliciting submissions that describe integrated systems for computer-assisted interventions, regardless of whether or not they utilize open source software. Submissions that describe open source software packages for computer assisted interventions are also appropriate. All submissions should be made via the Insight Journal. A special issue has been created for the Workshop on Systems and Architectures for Computer Assisted Interventions at MICCAI 2008. Note that the Insight Journal has a LaTeX style file available here.
Key points regarding submission:
- Papers may be up to 8 pages in length. Authors are encouraged to include other files with their submission,particularly videos, code, and data. Extended abstracts will be considered, especially if accompanied by other files.
- Every submission immediately appears on the Insight Journal site in the Special Issue on the MICCAI Workshop. Therefore, every submission is available to any registered member of the Insight Journal (and registration is free).
- Submission requires licensing to the Insight Journal the right to distribute your submission under the Creative Commons' "by-attribution" license. Copyright transfer is not required.
- The Insight Journal is a registered digital library. Therefore, your submission is automatically assigned a unique open-archive "handle" that (unlike URLs) persists on the web and that (unlike other web-based database keys) allows your submission to be indexed by Google and other search engines. Handles also serve as a mechanism whereby submissions can be permanently referenced in publications.
Peer Review
Every submission is available for public peer-review. That is, any registered member of the Insight Journal (and registration is free) is able to download, score, and comment on any submission to this workshop. All reviews are public. Anonymous reviews are discouraged.
The workshop committee will consider the posted reviews, as well as the intent of the workshop, to select papers for oral presentation. Those decisions will be announced on or about July 30, 2008.
Final Program
Following is the program for the workshop. The order of talks within a session may be reordered to accommodate speaker requests.
09:00 - 09:10 Introduction, Peter Kazanzides, Johns Hopkins University
09:10 – 10:10 Industry presentations
- Medtronic StealthStation™ StealthLink Research Portal, Leslie Holton, Medtronic
- The daVinci Research Interface, Simon DiMaio, Intuitive Surgical
- Micron Tracker: API and other interfaces, Claudio Gatti, Claron Technology
- VectorVision Link, Pratik Patel, BrainLAB
10:10 – 10:30 Plenary Session
- Research interfaces for image-guided neurosurgery, Xenophon Papademetris, Yale Univ.
10:30 – 10:50 Break
10:50 – 11:10 Discussion
- Challenges of open interfaces
11:10 – 12:30 CAI Software #1
- Open Source Initiative for Surgical Robot Toolkit, Kiyo Chinzei, AIST Japan
- IGSTK: Building High Quality Roads with Open Source Software, Luis Ibanez, Kitware
- The Surgical Assistant Workstation, Russ Taylor, Anton Deguet, Johns Hopkins University, and Simon DiMaio, Intuitive Surgical
- Software and hardware integration strategy for image guided therapy using Open IGT Link, Junichi Tokuda, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (on your own)
13:30 – 15:30 CAI Software #2
- The cisst libraries for computer assisted intervention systems, Anton Deguet, Johns Hopkins Univ.
- An Open-Source Solution for Interactive Acquisition, Processing and Transfer of Interventional Ultrasound Images, Jonathan Boisvert, Queen’s Univ.
- Simulink Libraries for Visual Programming of VTK and ITK, David Gobbi, Queen’s Univ.
- VV: a viewer for the evaluation of 4D image registration, Pierre Seroul, Univ. Lyon
- MITK & 3DMed : An Integrated Platform Applicable for the Development of Computer Assisted Intervention Systems, Jian Chen, Chinese Academy of Science
- A XML based component oriented architecture for image guided surgery: illustration for the video based tracking of a surgical tool, Jean-Baptiste Fasquel, IRCAD
15:30 – 16:00 Discussion
- Architectures and interoperability
16:00 – 16:20 Break
16:20 – 17:40 CAI Systems
- Integration of Open Source and Commercial Software for a Neurosurgical Robot System, Tian Xia, Tamas Haidegger, JHU
- CustusX: A navigation system and research tool for minimally invasive therapy, improved safety, surgeon confidence and patient outcome, Frank Lindseth, SINTEF Norway
- Distributed database framework for real-time image-guidance in robotic surgery, David Kwartowitz, Mayo Clinic
- Software Architecture of a System for Robotic Surgery, Hermann Mayer, Technical University of Munich
17:40 – 18:20 Discussion and wrap-up
- Successes and unmet needs
- Planning for technical paper (white paper)